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Robert Frost: Just specimens is...

Robert Frost: Just specimens is...

Just specimens is all New Hampshire has,
One each of everything as in a show-case
Which naturally she doesn't...

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J August Strindberg: Friendship can only...

J August Strindberg: Friendship can only...

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions...

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J August Strindberg: Why is it...

J August Strindberg: Why is it...

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal...

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William Wordsworth: And O, ye...

William Wordsworth: And O, ye...

And O, ye fountains, meadows, hills and groves,
Forebode not any severing of our loves!
Yet in my heart of...

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William Wordsworth: Brothers all<br>In honour,...

William Wordsworth: Brothers all
In honour,...

Brothers all
In honour, as in one community,
Scholars and gentlemen.


Source:...

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William Wordsworth: The good die...

William Wordsworth: The good die...

The good die first,
And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust,
Burn to the...

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Emily Dickinson: To fight aloud...

Emily Dickinson: To fight aloud...

To fight aloud is very brave,
But gallanter, I know,
Who charge within the bosom
The Cavalry of...

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George Bernard Shaw: That is what...

George Bernard Shaw: That is what...

That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely...

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George Bernard Shaw: What is the...

George Bernard Shaw: What is the...

What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true...

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James Matthew Barrie: ... it's a...

James Matthew Barrie: ... it's a...

... it's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it...

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James Matthew Barrie: The best place...

James Matthew Barrie: The best place...

The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.

Source: In The...

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Jean Anouilh: To say yes,...

Jean Anouilh: To say yes,...

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It's easy to...

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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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George Bernard Shaw: If the English...

George Bernard Shaw: If the English...

If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

Source: In...

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Aeschylus: Time brings all...

Aeschylus: Time brings all...

Time brings all things to pass.

Source: The Libation Bearers'
-- Aeschylus, ( ...

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Oscar Wilde: It was a...

Oscar Wilde: It was a...

It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as...

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Oscar Wilde: Every portrait that...

Oscar Wilde: Every portrait that...

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the...

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J B Priestley: Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people...

J B Priestley: Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people...

Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something bovine about...

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Euripides: Do we, holding...

Euripides: Do we, holding...

Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with unsubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance...

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Euripides: To persevere, trusting...

Euripides: To persevere, trusting...

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

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