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George Bernard Shaw: The more I...

George Bernard Shaw: The more I...

The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

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J B Priestley: They will review...

J B Priestley: They will review...

They will review a book by a writer much older than themselves as if it were an over-ambitious essay by a second-year...

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J B Priestley: Public opinion polls...

J B Priestley: Public opinion polls...

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're...

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George Farquhar: I have fed...

George Farquhar: I have fed...

I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

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Antonin Artaud: So long as...

Antonin Artaud: So long as...

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to...

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Charlotte Bronte: A ruffled mind...

Charlotte Bronte: A ruffled mind...

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Source: The Professor, 1846.
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Aeschylus: Memory is the...

Aeschylus: Memory is the...

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Source: Prometheus Bound.
-- Aeschylus, ( ...

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George Bernard Shaw: The secret of...

George Bernard Shaw: The secret of...

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is...

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George Bernard Shaw: There is nothing...

George Bernard Shaw: There is nothing...

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early...

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James Matthew Barrie: A safe but...

James Matthew Barrie: A safe but...

A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for...

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James Matthew Barrie: That is ever...

James Matthew Barrie: That is ever...

That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.

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Aeschylus: And even in...

Aeschylus: And even in...

And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our...

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Oscar Wilde: I am not...

Oscar Wilde: I am not...

I am not young enough to know everything.

Source: The Admirable Crichton
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Oscar Wilde: The fact is,...

Oscar Wilde: The fact is,...

The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade...

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Oscar Wilde: The State is...

Oscar Wilde: The State is...

The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.

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William Wordsworth: O'er rough and...

William Wordsworth: O'er rough and...

O'er rough and smooth she trips along,
And never looks behind;
And sings a solitary song
That whistles in the...

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William Wordsworth: I have felt<br>A...

William Wordsworth: I have felt
A...

I have felt
A presence that disturbs me with the joy
Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime
Of something far...

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William Wordsworth: I have learned<br>To...

William Wordsworth: I have learned
To...

I have learned
To look on nature, not as in the hour
Of thoughtless youth: but hearing oftentimes
The still,...

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William Wordsworth: Some sipping punch,...

William Wordsworth: Some sipping punch,...

Some sipping punch, some sipping tea,
But, as you by their faces see,
All silent and all...

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William Wordsworth: The oldest man...

William Wordsworth: The oldest man...

The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs.

Source: Resolution and...

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