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Oscar Wilde: To love oneself...

Oscar Wilde: To love oneself...

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

Source: Lord Goring, in An...

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William Wordsworth: Think you, 'mid...

William Wordsworth: Think you, 'mid...

Think you, 'mid all this mighty sum
Of things forever speaking.
That nothing of itself will come,
But we must...

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William Wordsworth: She was a...

William Wordsworth: She was a...

She was a phantom of delight
When first she gleamed upon my sight;
A lovely apparition, sent
To be a moment's...

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William Wordsworth: The stars of...

William Wordsworth: The stars of...

The stars of midnight shall be dear
To her; and she shall lean her ear
In many a secret...

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George Farquhar: Charming women can...

George Farquhar: Charming women can...

Charming women can true converts make,
We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.


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James Matthew Barrie: If you have...

James Matthew Barrie: If you have...

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what...

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George Bernard Shaw: Civilized society is...

George Bernard Shaw: Civilized society is...

Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.

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George Bernard Shaw: Cusins is a...

George Bernard Shaw: Cusins is a...

Cusins is a very nice fellow, certainly: nobody would ever guess that he was born in...

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George Bernard Shaw: The joy in...

George Bernard Shaw: The joy in...

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

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George Bernard Shaw: The ordinary man...

George Bernard Shaw: The ordinary man...

The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he...

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George Bernard Shaw: The test of...

George Bernard Shaw: The test of...

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

Source:...

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George Bernard Shaw: The utmost I...

George Bernard Shaw: The utmost I...

The utmost I can bear for myself in my best days is that I was one of the hundred best playwrights in the world, which...

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George Bernard Shaw: Whether you think...

George Bernard Shaw: Whether you think...

Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit that he was a first-rate political...

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William Shakespeare: Men prize the...

William Shakespeare: Men prize the...

Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.

Source: King Henry VIII.
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William Shakespeare: This above all:...

William Shakespeare: This above all:...

This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to...

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William Shakespeare: The art of...

William Shakespeare: The art of...

The art of our necessities is strange,
That can make vile things precious.


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William Shakespeare: O! it is...

William Shakespeare: O! it is...

O! it is excellent
To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous
To use it like a...

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William Shakespeare: Tis neither here...

William Shakespeare: Tis neither here...

'Tis neither here nor there.

Source: Othello, IV. iii. (59).
-- William...

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William Shakespeare: Reputation is an...

William Shakespeare: Reputation is an...

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without...

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William Shakespeare: What's in a...

William Shakespeare: What's in a...

What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.


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