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George Bernard Shaw: If history repeats...

George Bernard Shaw: If history repeats...

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from...

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George Bernard Shaw: My mother married...

George Bernard Shaw: My mother married...

My mother married a very good man . . . and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.

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George Bernard Shaw: It has taken...

George Bernard Shaw: It has taken...

It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make...

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George Bernard Shaw: I quite agree...

George Bernard Shaw: I quite agree...

I quite agree with you, sir, but what can two do against so many?

Source:...

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George Bernard Shaw: It's all that...

George Bernard Shaw: It's all that...

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

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George Bernard Shaw: In this world...

George Bernard Shaw: In this world...

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Source:
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Oscar Wilde: No man dies...

Oscar Wilde: No man dies...

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts...

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Oscar Wilde: Cultivated leisure is...

Oscar Wilde: Cultivated leisure is...

Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.

Source: The Soul of Man under Socialism, in...

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Oscar Wilde: That is what...

Oscar Wilde: That is what...

That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as...

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Oscar Wilde: Ah, every day...

Oscar Wilde: Ah, every day...

Ah, every day dear Herbert becomes de plus en plus Oscarie. It is wonderful case of nature imitating...

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Oscar Wilde: Genius is born,...

Oscar Wilde: Genius is born,...

Genius is born, not paid.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith...

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Oscar Wilde: Fashion is the...

Oscar Wilde: Fashion is the...

Fashion is the method by which the fantastic becomes for a moment universal.

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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.


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