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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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William Shakespeare: Present mirth hath...

William Shakespeare: Present mirth hath...

Present mirth hath present laughter
What's to come is still unsure.


Source:...

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William Shakespeare: Though it be...

William Shakespeare: Though it be...

Though it be honest, it is never good
To bring bad news.


Source: Antony and...

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William Shakespeare: Over hill, over...

William Shakespeare: Over hill, over...

Over hill, over dale,
Thorough bush, thorough brier,
Over park, over pale,
Thorough flood, thorough...

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William Shakespeare: Thou seest I...

William Shakespeare: Thou seest I...

Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.

Source:...

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William Shakespeare: He hath never...

William Shakespeare: He hath never...

He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink;...

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William Shakespeare: Virtue is bold,...

William Shakespeare: Virtue is bold,...

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

Source: Measure for Measure, III. i....

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William Shakespeare: Tis an ill...

William Shakespeare: Tis an ill...

Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

Source: Romeo and Juliet,...

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William Shakespeare: Our stern alarums...

William Shakespeare: Our stern alarums...

Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings;
Our dreadful marches to delightful...

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William Shakespeare: You undergo too...

William Shakespeare: You undergo too...

You undergo too strict a paradox,
Striving to make an ugly deed look fair:
Your words have took such pains as if...

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William Shakespeare: Here are a...

William Shakespeare: Here are a...

Here are a few of the unpleasant'st words
That ever blotted paper!


Source: The...

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George Bernard Shaw: No man who...

George Bernard Shaw: No man who...

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his...

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George Bernard Shaw: It is easy...

George Bernard Shaw: It is easy...

It is easy -- terribly easy -- to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit...

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George Bernard Shaw: The early Christian...

George Bernard Shaw: The early Christian...

The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world...

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George Bernard Shaw: Never waste jealousy...

George Bernard Shaw: Never waste jealousy...

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long...

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George Bernard Shaw: Take care to...

George Bernard Shaw: Take care to...

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get. Where there is no ventilation fresh air is...

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George Bernard Shaw: Why, except as...

George Bernard Shaw: Why, except as...

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in,...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Thou madest man,...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Thou madest man,...

Thou madest man, he knows not why.

Source: In Memoriam, Prologue
-- Alfred, Lord...

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William Shakespeare: If I do...

William Shakespeare: If I do...

If I do dream, would all my wealth would wake me!
If I do wake, some planet strike me down,
That I may slumber...

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William Shakespeare: If one good...

William Shakespeare: If one good...

If one good deed in all my life I did,
I do repent it from my very soul.


Source:...

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