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William Shakespeare: You fools of...

William Shakespeare: You fools of...

You fools of fortune, trencher-friends, time's flies.

Source: Timon of Athens,...

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William Shakespeare: Kings are earth's...

William Shakespeare: Kings are earth's...

Kings are earth's gods; in vice their law's their will.

Source: Pericles, I:1
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William Shakespeare: Beauty itself doth...

William Shakespeare: Beauty itself doth...

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.


Source:...

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William Shakespeare: And now this...

William Shakespeare: And now this...

And now this pale swan in her watery nest
Begins the sad dirge of her certain ending.


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William Shakespeare: Time's glory is...

William Shakespeare: Time's glory is...

Time's glory is to calm contending kings,
To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light.


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William Shakespeare: And so to...

William Shakespeare: And so to...

And so to publish Tarquin's foul offence:
Which being done with speedy diligence,
The Romans plausibly did give...

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George Bernard Shaw: It would positively...

George Bernard Shaw: It would positively...

It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him.

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George Bernard Shaw: Our necessities are...

George Bernard Shaw: Our necessities are...

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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George Bernard Shaw: The thought of...

George Bernard Shaw: The thought of...

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

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George Bernard Shaw: The liar's punishment...

George Bernard Shaw: The liar's punishment...

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone...

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George Bernard Shaw: The worst cliques...

George Bernard Shaw: The worst cliques...

The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.

Source: In Webster's...

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George Bernard Shaw: The great danger...

George Bernard Shaw: The great danger...

The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower...

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George Bernard Shaw: The more things...

George Bernard Shaw: The more things...

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

Source: Man &...

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George Bernard Shaw: The savage bows...

George Bernard Shaw: The savage bows...

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and...

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George Bernard Shaw: The surest way...

George Bernard Shaw: The surest way...

The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.

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George Bernard Shaw: When it comes...

George Bernard Shaw: When it comes...

When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

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William Shakespeare: Ideas are the...

William Shakespeare: Ideas are the...

Ideas are the very coinage of your brain.

Source: In The New Webster's Dictionary...

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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: Oh! many are...

William Wordsworth: Oh! many are...

Oh! many are the poets that are sown
By Nature; men endowed with highest gifts,
The vision and the faculty...

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William Wordsworth: The brook and...

William Wordsworth: The brook and...

The brook and road
Were fellow-travellers in this gloomy strait.


Source: The...

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