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Oscar Wilde: It is a...

Oscar Wilde: It is a...

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never...

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Oscar Wilde: One can always...

Oscar Wilde: One can always...

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

Source: Lord Henry,...

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Oscar Wilde: They are horribly...

Oscar Wilde: They are horribly...

They are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are...

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Oscar Wilde: And now, I...

Oscar Wilde: And now, I...

And now, I am dying beyond my means.

Source: Sipping champagne on his...

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Oscar Wilde: I like to...

Oscar Wilde: I like to...

I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.

Source:...

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Oscar Wilde: Democracy means simply...

Oscar Wilde: Democracy means simply...

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

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Oscar Wilde: It is always...

Oscar Wilde: It is always...

It is always the unreadable that occurs.

Source: Vivian, in The Decay of Lying ...

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Alexander Pope: They dream in...

Alexander Pope: They dream in...

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Alexander Pope: Were there one...

Alexander Pope: Were there one...

Were there one whose fires
True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires;
Blest with each talent and each art to...

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Alexander Pope: Shakespeare . ....

Alexander Pope: Shakespeare . ....

Shakespeare . . .
For gain not glory, winged his roving flight,
And grew immortal in his own...

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William Wordsworth: Farewell, farewell the...

William Wordsworth: Farewell, farewell the...

Farewell, farewell the heart that lives alone,
Housed in a dream, at distance from the...

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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 have fought...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I have fought...

I have fought for Queen and Faith like a valiant man and true;
I have only done my duty as a man is bound to...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Jewels five-words long<br>That...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Jewels five-words long
That...

Jewels five-words long
That on the stretched forefinger of all Time
Sparkle for...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Man for the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Man for the...

Man for the field and woman for the hearth:
Man for the sword and for the needle she:
Man with the head and...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: O great and...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: O great and...

O great and sane and simple race of brutes
That own no lust because they have no law!


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Manners are not...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Manners are not...

Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind.

Source: In ...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The clouds are...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The clouds are...

The clouds are lightly curled
Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Then the maiden...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Then the maiden...

Then the maiden Aunt
Took this fair day for text, and from it preached
An universal culture for the...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: To-night the winds...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: To-night the winds...

To-night the winds begin to rise
And roar from yonder dropping day:
The last red leaf is whirled away,
The...

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