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Oscar Wilde: By persistently remaining...

Oscar Wilde: By persistently remaining...

By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more...

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Oscar Wilde: Must we really...

Oscar Wilde: Must we really...

Must we really see Chicago in order to be educated?

Source: Mr. Erskine, in The...

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Oscar Wilde: He thinks like...

Oscar Wilde: He thinks like...

He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.

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Oscar Wilde: If a man...

Oscar Wilde: If a man...

If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at...

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Oscar Wilde: Grief has turned...

Oscar Wilde: Grief has turned...

Grief has turned her fair.

Source: Referring to the fact that a recently-bereaved...

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Oscar Wilde: Down the long...

Oscar Wilde: Down the long...

Down the long and silent street,
The dawn, with silver-sandalled feet,
Crept like a frightened...

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Oscar Wilde: A person who,...

Oscar Wilde: A person who,...

A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.

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Oscar Wilde: Most of our...

Oscar Wilde: Most of our...

Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Come into the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Come into the...

Come into the garden, Maud,
For the black bat, night, has flown,
Come into the garden, Maud,
I am here at the...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: God made Himself...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: God made Himself...

God made Himself an awful rose of dawn.

Source: The Village of Sin, 3; also last...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: He is but...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: He is but...

He is but a landscape-painter,
And a village maiden she.


Source: The Lord of...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: No little lily-handed...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: No little lily-handed...

No little lily-handed Baronet he,
A great broad-shouldered genial Englishman,
A lord of fat prize-oxen and of...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: O love, what...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: O love, what...

O love, what hours were thine and mine,
In lands of palm and southern pine.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Sleep my little...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Sleep my little...

Sleep my little one, sleep my pretty one, sleep.

Source: 'The Princess'
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Nourishing a youth...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Nourishing a youth...

Nourishing a youth sublime
With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: So all day...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: So all day...

So all day long the noise of battle rolled
Among the mountains by the winter sea.


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Alexander Pope: Happy the man...

Alexander Pope: Happy the man...

Happy the man whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air,
In his own...

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Alexander Pope: Shut, shut the...

Alexander Pope: Shut, shut the...

Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigued I said.
Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead.
The dog-star...

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Alexander Pope: Learn to live...

Alexander Pope: Learn to live...

Learn to live well, or fairly make your will;
You've played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fill:
Walk sober...

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Alexander Pope: Pride is still...

Alexander Pope: Pride is still...

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels...

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