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Oscar Wilde: It is a...

Oscar Wilde: It is a...

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Source: Gilbert, in The Critic as Artist,...

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Oscar Wilde: Everyone is born...

Oscar Wilde: Everyone is born...

Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.

Source: In Webster's...

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Oscar Wilde: To believe is...

Oscar Wilde: To believe is...

To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing.

Source: In Webster's...

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Groucho Marx: There's a man...

Groucho Marx: There's a man...

There's a man outside with a big black mustache. - Tell him I've got one.

Source:...

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Fred Allen: Washington is no...

Fred Allen: Washington is no...

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

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Brendan Behan: All publicity is...

Brendan Behan: All publicity is...

All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.

Source: In Sunday Express...

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Zora Neale Hurston: There are years...

Zora Neale Hurston: There are years...

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Zora Neale Hurston: There is no...

Zora Neale Hurston: There is no...

There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.

Source: In Words of...

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Zora Neale Hurston: When a man...

Zora Neale Hurston: When a man...

When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.

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George Bernard Shaw: What the world...

George Bernard Shaw: What the world...

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

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George Bernard Shaw: A government which...

George Bernard Shaw: A government which...

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

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George Bernard Shaw: Always let your...

George Bernard Shaw: Always let your...

Always let your flattery be seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think him worth...

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George Bernard Shaw: Fashions, after all,...

George Bernard Shaw: Fashions, after all,...

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

Source: Doctor's Dilemma,...

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William Shakespeare: I will praise...

William Shakespeare: I will praise...

I will praise any man that will praise me.

Source: Enobarbus, in Antony and...

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William Shakespeare: Striving to better,...

William Shakespeare: Striving to better,...

Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.

Source: King Lear, I. iv. (370).
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William Wordsworth: The flower that...

William Wordsworth: The flower that...

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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William Wordsworth: Nor less I...

William Wordsworth: Nor less I...

Nor less I deem that there are powers
Which of themselves our minds impress;
That we can feed this mind of...

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William Wordsworth: Every great and...

William Wordsworth: Every great and...

Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he...

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William Wordsworth: Where lies the...

William Wordsworth: Where lies the...

Where lies the land to which yon ship must go?

Source: Miscellaneous Sonnets, I....

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William Wordsworth: As a huge...

William Wordsworth: As a huge...

As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie
Couched on the bald top of an eminence.


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