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Oscar Wilde: The sick do...

Oscar Wilde: The sick do...

The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their...

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Oscar Wilde: America had often...

Oscar Wilde: America had often...

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

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Oscar Wilde: In America, the...

Oscar Wilde: In America, the...

In America, the President reigns for four years, and journalism governs for ever and ever.

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Oscar Wilde: My experience is...

Oscar Wilde: My experience is...

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at...

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Oscar Wilde: A sentimentalist, my...

Oscar Wilde: A sentimentalist, my...

A sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market...

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Oscar Wilde: The great events...

Oscar Wilde: The great events...

The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become...

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Oscar Wilde: Temperament is the...

Oscar Wilde: Temperament is the...

Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic -- a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the...

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Thornton Wilder: One of the...

Thornton Wilder: One of the...

One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with persons more or...

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Thornton Wilder: Enjoy your ice...

Thornton Wilder: Enjoy your ice...

Enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate -- that's my philosophy.

Source: The...

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William Shakespeare: The silence often...

William Shakespeare: The silence often...

The silence often of pure innocence
Persuades when speaking fails.


Source: The...

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William Shakespeare: Faith, thou hast...

William Shakespeare: Faith, thou hast...

Faith, thou hast some crotchets in thy head.

Source: The Merry Wives of Windsor,...

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William Shakespeare: Home-keeping youth have...

William Shakespeare: Home-keeping youth have...

Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.

Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, I....

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William Shakespeare: I am not...

William Shakespeare: I am not...

I am not worthy of the wealth I owe, Nor dare I say 'tis mine, and yet it is; But, like a timorous thief, most fain...

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Ogden Nash: The trouble with...

Ogden Nash: The trouble with...

The trouble with a kitten is that it eventually becomes a cat.

Source: '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: Cannon to right...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Cannon to right...

Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volleyed and...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: On the bald...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: On the bald...

On the bald street breaks the blank day.

Source: In Memoriam, 7 (Note: the stanza...

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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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William Wordsworth: Getting and spending,...

William Wordsworth: Getting and spending,...

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

Source: Miscellaneous Sonnets,...

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William Wordsworth: No motion has...

William Wordsworth: No motion has...

No motion has she now, no force;
She neither hears nor sees;
Rolled around in earth's diurnal course,
With...

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