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William Wordsworth: There was a...

William Wordsworth: There was a...

There was a boy: ye knew him well, ye cliffs
And islands of Winander!


Source:...

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William Wordsworth: The wiser mind<br>Mourns...

William Wordsworth: The wiser mind
Mourns...

The wiser mind
Mourns less for what age takes away
Than what it leaves behind.


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George Bernard Shaw: A perpendicular expression...

George Bernard Shaw: A perpendicular expression...

A perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Source: Referring to dancing....

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George Bernard Shaw: It is dangerous...

George Bernard Shaw: It is dangerous...

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

Source: Man and Superman,...

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George Bernard Shaw: If the announcer...

George Bernard Shaw: If the announcer...

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentlemen, he may pronounce as he...

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George Bernard Shaw: The English are...

George Bernard Shaw: The English are...

The English are not very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of...

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George Bernard Shaw: The world is...

George Bernard Shaw: The world is...

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.

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--...

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James Matthew Barrie: If 'Hamlet' had...

James Matthew Barrie: If 'Hamlet' had...

If 'Hamlet' had been written in these days it would probably have been called 'The Strange Affair at...

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James Matthew Barrie: Shall we make...

James Matthew Barrie: Shall we make...

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is...

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Antonin Artaud: The race of...

Antonin Artaud: The race of...

The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of...

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Aeschylus: Time as he...

Aeschylus: Time as he...

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Aeschylus: Who holds a...

Aeschylus: Who holds a...

Who holds a power but newly gained is ever stern of mood.

Source:
-- Aeschylus,...

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Oscar Wilde: To do nothing...

Oscar Wilde: To do nothing...

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most...

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Oscar Wilde: Better the rule...

Oscar Wilde: Better the rule...

Better the rule of One, whom all obey,
Than to let clamorous demagogues betray
Our freedom with the kiss of...

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Oscar Wilde: The amount of...

Oscar Wilde: The amount of...

The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply...

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George Farquhar: Observe this, that...

George Farquhar: Observe this, that...

Observe this, that tho' a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if...

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George Bernard Shaw: We educate one...

George Bernard Shaw: We educate one...

We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk...

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George Bernard Shaw: A drama critic...

George Bernard Shaw: A drama critic...

A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.

Source: In NY Times, 5 Nov...

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George Bernard Shaw: Absolute honesty is...

George Bernard Shaw: Absolute honesty is...

Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute...

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George Bernard Shaw: A nap, my...

George Bernard Shaw: A nap, my...

A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavour to entertain...

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