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Ogden Nash: Some people's money...

Ogden Nash: Some people's money...

Some people's money is merited
And other people's is inherited.


Source: The...

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Oscar Wilde: The commonest thing...

Oscar Wilde: The commonest thing...

The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.

Source: In Webster's...

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Oscar Wilde: Good taste is...

Oscar Wilde: Good taste is...

Good taste is the excuse I have given for leading such a bad life.

Source: In The...

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Oscar Wilde: Experience is the...

Oscar Wilde: Experience is the...

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Source: Lady Windermere's Fan
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Oscar Wilde: Thirty-five is a...

Oscar Wilde: Thirty-five is a...

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: As the many-wintered...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: As the many-wintered...

As the many-wintered crow that leads the clanging rookery home.

Source: Locksley...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Do?nt thou marry...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Do?nt thou marry...

Do?nt thou marry for munny, but go? wheer munny is!

Source: Northern Farmer. New...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: For words, like...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: For words, like...

For words, like Nature, half reveal
And half conceal the Soul within.


Source: In...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Let us hob-and-nob...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Let us hob-and-nob...

Let us hob-and-nob with Death.

Source: The Village of Sin, 34
-- Alfred, Lord...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The lion on...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The lion on...

The lion on your old stone gates
Is not more cold to you than I.


Source: Lady...

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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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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The gardener Adam...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The gardener Adam...

The gardener Adam and his wife
Smile at the claims of long descent.


Source: Lady...

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Thornton Wilder: I've never forgotten...

Thornton Wilder: I've never forgotten...

I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the...

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Thornton Wilder: Winning children (who...

Thornton Wilder: Winning children (who...

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a...

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Ogden Nash: The camel has...

Ogden Nash: The camel has...

The camel has a single hump;
The dromedary, two;
Or else the other way around.
I'm never sure. Are...

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Ogden Nash: I don't mind...

Ogden Nash: I don't mind...

I don't mind their having a lot of money, and I don't care how they employ it,
But I do think that they damn well...

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Alexander Pope: Some daemon stole...

Alexander Pope: Some daemon stole...

Some daemon stole my pen (forgive th' offence)
And once betrayed me into common sense.
Else all my prose and...

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Alexander Pope: All gardening is...

Alexander Pope: All gardening is...

All gardening is landscape painting.

Source: Joseph Spence's 'Anecdotes'
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Alexander Pope: Behold the child,...

Alexander Pope: Behold the child,...

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law
Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw:
Some livelier plaything...

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Alexander Pope: Created half to...

Alexander Pope: Created half to...

Created half to rise, and half to fall;
Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;
Sole judge of truth, in...

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