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Oscar Wilde: I'm sure I...

Oscar Wilde: I'm sure I...

I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like...

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William Wordsworth: Ne'er saw I,...

William Wordsworth: Ne'er saw I,...

Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!
The river glideth at his own sweet will:
Dear God! the very houses seem...

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William Wordsworth: The winds come...

William Wordsworth: The winds come...

The winds come to me from the fields of sleep.

Source: Ode, Intimations of...

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J B Priestley: A lot of...

J B Priestley: A lot of...

A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles of careful...

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J B Priestley: The more we...

J B Priestley: The more we...

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

Source:...

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James Matthew Barrie: The most useless...

James Matthew Barrie: The most useless...

The most useless are those who never change through the years.

Source: In The...

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Christopher Fry: Try thinking of...

Christopher Fry: Try thinking of...

Try thinking of love, or something.
Amor vincit insomnia.


Source: A Sleep of...

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George Bernard Shaw: A man of...

George Bernard Shaw: A man of...

A man of great common sense and good taste --meaning thereby a man without originality or moral...

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George Bernard Shaw: Censorship ends in...

George Bernard Shaw: Censorship ends in...

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books nobody...

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William Shakespeare: The mutable, rank-scented...

William Shakespeare: The mutable, rank-scented...

The mutable, rank-scented many.

Source: Coriolanus, III. i. (65).
-- William...

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William Shakespeare: A deed without...

William Shakespeare: A deed without...

A deed without a name.

Source: Macbeth, IV. i. (49).
-- William Shakespeare,...

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Abraham Lincoln: What kills a...

Abraham Lincoln: What kills a...

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

Source: In Webster's...

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Jawaharlal Nehru: Time is not...

Jawaharlal Nehru: Time is not...

Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one...

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Jawaharlal Nehru: You don't change...

Jawaharlal Nehru: You don't change...

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

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Abraham Lincoln: How many legs...

Abraham Lincoln: How many legs...

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a...

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Will Rogers: England elects a...

Will Rogers: England elects a...

England elects a Labour Government. When a man goes in for politics over here, he has no time to labor, and any man...

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Will Rogers: The nation is...

Will Rogers: The nation is...

The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?

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Will Rogers: Broad-minded is just...

Will Rogers: Broad-minded is just...

Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.

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G C Lichtenberg: Affectation is a...

G C Lichtenberg: Affectation is a...

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe...

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G C Lichtenberg: If there were...

G C Lichtenberg: If there were...

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong...

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