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Oscar Wilde: Ignorance is like...

Oscar Wilde: Ignorance is like...

Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone.

Source: Lady...

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Oscar Wilde: The basis of...

Oscar Wilde: The basis of...

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Source: Lord Henry, in The Picture of Dorian...

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Oscar Wilde: Men marry because...

Oscar Wilde: Men marry because...

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

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Oscar Wilde: Meredith is a...

Oscar Wilde: Meredith is a...

Meredith is a prose Browning, and so is Browning.

Source: The Critic as Artist, Pt...

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Oscar Wilde: I hope you...

Oscar Wilde: I hope you...

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would...

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Oscar Wilde: Ah! Don't say...

Oscar Wilde: Ah! Don't say...

Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be...

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Oscar Wilde: His style is...

Oscar Wilde: His style is...

His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Oh teach me...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Oh teach me...

Oh teach me yet
Somewhat before the heavy clod
Weighs on me, and the busy fret
Of that sharp-headed worm...

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George Bernard Shaw: When a stupid...

George Bernard Shaw: When a stupid...

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his...

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John Lennon: It's been a...

John Lennon: It's been a...

It's been a hard day's night.

Source: A Hard Day's Night, (with Paul...

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John Lennon: The more I...

John Lennon: The more I...

The more I see the less I know for sure.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Earl Nightingale: Whenever we're afraid,...

Earl Nightingale: Whenever we're afraid,...

Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be...

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Abraham Lincoln: It often requires...

Abraham Lincoln: It often requires...

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

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Abraham Lincoln: If destruction be...

Abraham Lincoln: If destruction be...

If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: No little lily-handed...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: No little lily-handed...

No little lily-handed Baronet he,
A great broad-shouldered genial Englishman,
A lord of fat prize-oxen and of...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: One God, one...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: One God, one...

One God, one law, one element,
And one far-off divine event,
To which the whole creation...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Our echoes roll...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Our echoes roll...

Our echoes roll from soul to soul,
And grow for ever and for ever.


Source: The...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Sunset and evening...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Sunset and evening...

Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar
When I put out to...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The sequel of...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The sequel of...

The sequel of to-day unsolders all
The goodliest fellowship of famous knights
Whereof this world holds...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: To rust unburnished,...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: To rust unburnished,...

To rust unburnished, not to shine in use.

Source: Ulysses, 23
-- Alfred, Lord...

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