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Oscar Wilde: In married life...

Oscar Wilde: In married life...

In married life three is company and two is none.

Source: The Importance of Being...

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Oscar Wilde: As one knows...

Oscar Wilde: As one knows...

As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognise the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither...

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William Shakespeare: [T]ell him that...

William Shakespeare: [T]ell him that...

[T]ell him that his sword can never win
The honour that he loses . . .


Source:...

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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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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: O mother Ida,...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: O mother Ida,...

O mother Ida, many-fountained Ida,
Dear mother Ida, harken ere I die.


Source:...

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William Shakespeare: If music be...

William Shakespeare: If music be...

If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken and so...

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William Shakespeare: O, this life<br>Is...

William Shakespeare: O, this life
Is...

O, this life
Is nobler than attending for a check,
Richer than doing nothing for a bribe,
Prouder than...

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William Shakespeare: Every good servant...

William Shakespeare: Every good servant...

Every good servant does not all commands.

Source: Cymbeline, V:1
-- William...

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William Shakespeare: I may justly...

William Shakespeare: I may justly...

I may justly say with the hook-nosed fellow of Rome, 'I came, saw and overcame'.

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William Shakespeare: Defer no time,...

William Shakespeare: Defer no time,...

Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.

Source: Henry VI., Pt. I, III, ii.
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William Shakespeare: Had I but...

William Shakespeare: Had I but...

Had I but served my God with half the zeal
I served my King, He would not in mine age
Have left me naked to mine...

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William Shakespeare: That smooth-fac'd gentleman,...

William Shakespeare: That smooth-fac'd gentleman,...

That smooth-fac'd gentleman, tickling Commodity,
Commodity, the bias of the world.


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William Shakespeare: O! that a...

William Shakespeare: O! that a...

O! that a man might know
The end of this day's business ere it come.


Source:...

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William Shakespeare: Study is like...

William Shakespeare: Study is like...

Study is like the heaven's glorious sun,
That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks;
Small have continuous...

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William Shakespeare: The first, 'the...

William Shakespeare: The first, 'the...

The first, 'the retort courteous'; the second, 'the quip modest'; the third, 'the reply churlish'; the fourth, 'the...

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William Shakespeare: I earn that...

William Shakespeare: I earn that...

I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with...

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William Shakespeare: Haste still pays...

William Shakespeare: Haste still pays...

Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure;
Like doth quit like, and Measure still for...

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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: And thus I...

William Shakespeare: And thus I...

And thus I clothe my naked villany
With odd old ends stol'n forth of holy writ,
And seem a saint when most I...

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