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Oscar Wilde: A well-tied tie...

Oscar Wilde: A well-tied tie...

A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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George Bernard Shaw: Parentage is a...

George Bernard Shaw: Parentage is a...

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the...

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George Bernard Shaw: There are only...

George Bernard Shaw: There are only...

There are only 2 qualities in the world: efficiency and inefficiency, and only 2 sorts of people: the efficient and...

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George Bernard Shaw: The universal regard...

George Bernard Shaw: The universal regard...

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilisation. Money is the most important thing in the...

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George Bernard Shaw: You are a...

George Bernard Shaw: You are a...

You are a very poor soldier: a chocolate cream soldier!

Source: Arms and the Man,...

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George Bernard Shaw: You use a...

George Bernard Shaw: You use a...

You use a glass mirror to see your face: you use works of art to see your soul.

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George Bernard Shaw: When you are...

George Bernard Shaw: When you are...

When you are so poor that you cannot afford to refuse eighteenpence from a man who is too poor to pay you any more, it...

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William Shakespeare: Brevity is the...

William Shakespeare: Brevity is the...

Brevity is the soul of wit,
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes.


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William Shakespeare: Be not afraid...

William Shakespeare: Be not afraid...

Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon...

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William Shakespeare: Society is no...

William Shakespeare: Society is no...

Society is no comfort
To one not sociable.


Source: Cymbeline, IV:2
-- William...

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William Shakespeare: From women's eyes...

William Shakespeare: From women's eyes...

From women's eyes this doctrine I derive:
They sparkle still the right Promethean fire;
They are the books, the...

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Oscar Wilde: Work is the...

Oscar Wilde: Work is the...

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

Source: Quoted in: Hesketh Pearson, Life...

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Oscar Wilde: A truth ceases...

Oscar Wilde: A truth ceases...

A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.

Source: Phrases...

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Oscar Wilde: Tread lightly, she...

Oscar Wilde: Tread lightly, she...

Tread lightly, she is near
Under the snow,
Speak gently, she can hear
The daisies...

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Oscar Wilde: We Irish are...

Oscar Wilde: We Irish are...

We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since...

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Ogden Nash: The most exciting...

Ogden Nash: The most exciting...

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

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William Wordsworth: The light that...

William Wordsworth: The light that...

The light that never was, on sea or land,
The consecration, and the poet's dream.


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William Wordsworth: The sweetest thing...

William Wordsworth: The sweetest thing...

The sweetest thing that ever grew
Beside a human door!


Source: Lucy Gray.
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William Wordsworth: The child is...

William Wordsworth: The child is...

The child is father of the man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural...

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William Wordsworth: The winds come...

William Wordsworth: The winds come...

The winds come to me from the fields of sleep.

Source: Ode, Intimations of...

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