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Oscar Wilde: Intellectual generalities are...

Oscar Wilde: Intellectual generalities are...

Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely...

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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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Oscar Wilde: A mask tells...

Oscar Wilde: A mask tells...

A mask tells us more than a face.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed....

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Oscar Wilde: That is what...

Oscar Wilde: That is what...

That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as...

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Oscar Wilde: Civilization requires slaves....

Oscar Wilde: Civilization requires slaves....

Civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery...

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Oscar Wilde: Fashion is the...

Oscar Wilde: Fashion is the...

Fashion is the method by which the fantastic becomes for a moment universal.

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Zora Neale Hurston: Nothing that God...

Zora Neale Hurston: Nothing that God...

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.

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Zora Neale Hurston: It would be...

Zora Neale Hurston: It would be...

It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. . . . We will go...

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George Bernard Shaw: An Irishman's heart...

George Bernard Shaw: An Irishman's heart...

An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination.

Source: Larry Doyle, in John...

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George Bernard Shaw: Ladies and gentleman...

George Bernard Shaw: Ladies and gentleman...

Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.

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Ogden Nash: Progress might've been...

Ogden Nash: Progress might've been...

Progress might've been alright once but it has gone on too long.

Source: In 1,911...

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Alexander Pope: Eye Nature's walks,...

Alexander Pope: Eye Nature's walks,...

Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies,
And catch the manners living as they rise;
Laugh where we must, be...

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Alexander Pope: Who shall decide...

Alexander Pope: Who shall decide...

Who shall decide when doctors disagree?

Source: Moral Essays, III
-- Alexander...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Love is of...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Love is of...

Love is of the valley, come thou down
And find him.


Source: The Princess, VII,...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Sink me the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Sink me the...

Sink me the ship, Master Gunner - sink her, split her in twain!
Fall into the hands of God, not into the hands of...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Sleep, Death's twin-brother,...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Sleep, Death's twin-brother,...

Sleep, Death's twin-brother, knows not Death,
Nor can I dream of thee as dead.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The Gods themselves...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The Gods themselves...

The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.

Source: Tithonus.
-- Alfred, Lord...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Ring out the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Ring out the...

Ring out the want, the care, the sin,
The faithless coldness of the times.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Then comes the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Then comes the...

Then comes the check, the change, the fall,
Pain rises up, old pleasures pall,
There is one remedy for...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: This proverb flashes...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: This proverb flashes...

This proverb flashes thro' his head,
`The many fail, the one succeeds'.


Source:...

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