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William Shakespeare: We make trifles...

William Shakespeare: We make trifles...

We make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, when we should submit ourselves to an unknown...

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William Shakespeare: I am not...

William Shakespeare: I am not...

I am not worthy of the wealth I owe, Nor dare I say 'tis mine, and yet it is; But, like a timorous thief, most fain...

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William Shakespeare: Teach me, dear...

William Shakespeare: Teach me, dear...

Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak;
Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit,
Smother'd in errors,...

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William Shakespeare: We came into...

William Shakespeare: We came into...

We came into the world like brother and brother;
And now let's go hand in hand, not one before...

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Oscar Wilde: Other people are...

Oscar Wilde: Other people are...

Other people are quite dreadful.
The only possible society is oneself.


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Oscar Wilde: It was a...

Oscar Wilde: It was a...

It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as...

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Oscar Wilde: The ugly and...

Oscar Wilde: The ugly and...

The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they...

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Oscar Wilde: It is well...

Oscar Wilde: It is well...

It is well for our vanity that we slay the criminal, for if we suffered him to live he might show us what we had...

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George Bernard Shaw: Mark Twain and...

George Bernard Shaw: Mark Twain and...

Mark Twain and I are in the same position. We have put things in such a way as to make people, who would otherwise...

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George Bernard Shaw: The best place...

George Bernard Shaw: The best place...

The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him there.

Source: In...

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George Bernard Shaw: The people who...

George Bernard Shaw: The people who...

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they...

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George Bernard Shaw: The price of...

George Bernard Shaw: The price of...

The price of ability does not depend on merit, but on supply and demand.

Source: In...

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George Bernard Shaw: Virtue consists, not...

George Bernard Shaw: Virtue consists, not...

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

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George Bernard Shaw: Well, sir, you...

George Bernard Shaw: Well, sir, you...

Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing,...

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George Bernard Shaw: What we call...

George Bernard Shaw: What we call...

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of...

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George Bernard Shaw: We must always...

George Bernard Shaw: We must always...

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to...

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George Bernard Shaw: When I was...

George Bernard Shaw: When I was...

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a...

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George Bernard Shaw: What a man...

George Bernard Shaw: What a man...

What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his...

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George Bernard Shaw: Whether you think...

George Bernard Shaw: Whether you think...

Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit that he was a first-rate political...

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William Wordsworth: Type of the...

William Wordsworth: Type of the...

Type of the wise who soar, but never roam;
True to the kindred points of heaven and...

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