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William Shakespeare: My words fly...

William Shakespeare: My words fly...

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.


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William Shakespeare: How far that...

William Shakespeare: How far that...

How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.


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Walter Bagehot: Public opinion is...

Walter Bagehot: Public opinion is...

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's...

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George Bernard Shaw: There is no...

George Bernard Shaw: There is no...

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

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George Bernard Shaw: What is the...

George Bernard Shaw: What is the...

What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is...

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Benjamin Franklin: One should eat...

Benjamin Franklin: One should eat...

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Source: Rhetoricorum, LV.
-- Benjamin...

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Oscar Wilde: There is only...

Oscar Wilde: There is only...

There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future...

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Oscar Wilde: There is a...

Oscar Wilde: There is a...

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame...

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Alexander Pope: Party-spirit . ....

Alexander Pope: Party-spirit . ....

Party-spirit . . . at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

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William Shakespeare: Smooth runs the...

William Shakespeare: Smooth runs the...

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.

Source: Henry VI, Pt II, III. i....

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William Shakespeare: A little fire...

William Shakespeare: A little fire...

A little fire is quickly trodden out,
Which being suffered, rivers cannot quench.


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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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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: But when her...

William Shakespeare: But when her...

But when her lips were ready for his pay,
He winks, and turns his lips another way.


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William Shakespeare: From off a...

William Shakespeare: From off a...

From off a hill whose concave womb reworded
A plaintful story from a sistering vale,
My spirits to attend this...

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William Shakespeare: Forbear to judge,...

William Shakespeare: Forbear to judge,...

Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.

Source: Henry VI, Pt. 2, III, iii.
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William Shakespeare: He lives in...

William Shakespeare: He lives in...

He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.

Source: Titus Andronicus, I. i....

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Oscar Wilde: In his very...

Oscar Wilde: In his very...

In his very rejection of art Walt Whitman is an artist. He tried to produce a certain effect by certain means and he...

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Oscar Wilde: I don't like...

Oscar Wilde: I don't like...

I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.

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Oscar Wilde: All women become...

Oscar Wilde: All women become...

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.

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