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Oscar Wilde: To get back...

Oscar Wilde: To get back...

To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early or be...

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Oscar Wilde: I hate vulgar...

Oscar Wilde: I hate vulgar...

I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the...

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Oscar Wilde: The body sins...

Oscar Wilde: The body sins...

The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the...

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Oscar Wilde: A man who...

Oscar Wilde: A man who...

A man who can dominate a London dinner table can dominate the world. The future belongs to the dandy. It is the...

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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: While we look...

Oscar Wilde: While we look...

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to...

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Oscar Wilde: Who am I...

Oscar Wilde: Who am I...

Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?

Source: Refusing to make alterations to one...

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Oscar Wilde: Most people die...

Oscar Wilde: Most people die...

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: It little profits...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: It little profits...

It little profits that an idle king,
By this still hearth, among these barren crags,
Matched with an aged wife,...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I the heir...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I the heir...

I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

Source: Locksley Hall,...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Make Thou my...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Make Thou my...

Make Thou my spirit pure and clear
As are the frosty skies.


Source: St Agnes'...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I wind about,...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I wind about,...

I wind about, and in and out,
With here a blossom sailing,
And here and there a lusty trout,
And here and...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Not once or...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Not once or...

Not once or twice in our rough island-story,
The path of duty was the way to glory.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Only reapers, reaping...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Only reapers, reaping...

Only reapers, reaping early
In among the bearded barley.


Source: The Lady of...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: So I triumphed...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: So I triumphed...

So I triumphed ere my passion, sweeping thro' me, left me dry,
Left me with the palsied heart, and left me with the...

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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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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Ringed with the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Ringed with the...

Ringed with the azure world, he stands.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The kindly earth...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The kindly earth...

The kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal law.

Source: Locksley Hall,...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The grand old...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The grand old...

The grand old name of gentleman.

Source: In Memoriam, 111 (Note: the stanza numbers...

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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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