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Oscar Wilde: The liar at...

Oscar Wilde: The liar at...

The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more...

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Oscar Wilde: Bad art is...

Oscar Wilde: Bad art is...

Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.

Source: House Decoration,...

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Oscar Wilde: Where there is...

Oscar Wilde: Where there is...

Where there is no exaggeration there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding. It is only...

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Oscar Wilde: Every portrait that...

Oscar Wilde: Every portrait that...

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Come down, O...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Come down, O...

Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height:
What pleasure lives in height (the shepherd...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Sweet is true...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Sweet is true...

Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.

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Alexander Pope: An excuse is...

Alexander Pope: An excuse is...

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.

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Alexander Pope: Cibber! write all...

Alexander Pope: Cibber! write all...

Cibber! write all thy Verses upon Glasses,
The only way to save 'em from our Arses.


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Alexander Pope: How often are...

Alexander Pope: How often are...

How often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best...

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Alexander Pope: Passions are the...

Alexander Pope: Passions are the...

Passions are the gales of life.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Ah, why<br>Should life...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Ah, why
Should life...

Ah, why
Should life all labour be?


Source: The Lotos-Eaters, `Choric Song',...

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Robert Frost: Americans are like...

Robert Frost: Americans are like...

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him...

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Robert Frost: Don't be an...

Robert Frost: Don't be an...

Don't be an agnostic--be something.

Source:
-- Robert Frost, (Mar 26...

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Robert Frost: I often say...

Robert Frost: I often say...

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away...

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Robert Frost: I hold it...

Robert Frost: I hold it...

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

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George Gordon Byron: If I don't...

George Gordon Byron: If I don't...

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. . . I do not...

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Emily Dickinson: To make a...

Emily Dickinson: To make a...

To make a prairie
It takes clover and one bee
One clover, and a bee, and revery.
The revery alone will...

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Ogden Nash: In real life,...

Ogden Nash: In real life,...

In real life, it takes only one to make a quarrel.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Ogden Nash: I prefer to...

Ogden Nash: I prefer to...

I prefer to forget both pairs of glasses and pass my declining years saluting strange women and grandfather...

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Thornton Wilder: It is only...

Thornton Wilder: It is only...

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that...

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