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Andrew Marvell: The grave's a...

Andrew Marvell: The grave's a...

The grave's a fine and private place,
But none, I think, do there embrace.


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Ogden Nash: Senescence begins<br>And middle...

Ogden Nash: Senescence begins
And middle...

Senescence begins
And middle age ends,
The day your descendants,
Outnumber your...

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Sean O'Casey: The world's a...

Sean O'Casey: The world's a...

The world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

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-- Sean...

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Jean Anouilh: Life is very...

Jean Anouilh: Life is very...

Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.

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Jean Anouilh: Talent is like...

Jean Anouilh: Talent is like...

Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.

Source: In NY Times, 2...

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Martial: Lawyers are men...

Martial: Lawyers are men...

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Sarah Josepha Hale: . . ....

Sarah Josepha Hale: . . ....

. . . rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising...

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Louise A Bogan: In a time...

Louise A Bogan: In a time...

In a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in...

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Miguel de Cervantes: Tell me what...

Miguel de Cervantes: Tell me what...

Tell me what company thou keepest, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Source: Don...

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Miguel de Cervantes: The proof of...

Miguel de Cervantes: The proof of...

The proof of the pudding is in the eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole...

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Vita Sackville-West: It is necessary...

Vita Sackville-West: It is necessary...

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly...

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Vita Sackville-West: Ambition, old as...

Vita Sackville-West: Ambition, old as...

Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.

Source: 'No...

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Sean O'Casey: The hallway of...

Sean O'Casey: The hallway of...

The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be...

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Terence Rattigan: She has ideas...

Terence Rattigan: She has ideas...

She has ideas above her station . . . How would you say that in French? . . . you can't say au-dessus de sa gare. It...

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Oscar Wilde: When the gods...

Oscar Wilde: When the gods...

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

Source: Sir Robert...

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Oscar Wilde: But what is...

Oscar Wilde: But what is...

But what is the difference between literature and journalism? ... Journalism is unreadable, and literature is not...

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Leon Battista Alberti: We must always...

Leon Battista Alberti: We must always...

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.

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Francis Picabia: Good taste is...

Francis Picabia: Good taste is...

Good taste is as tiring as good company.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Francis Picabia: Only useless things...

Francis Picabia: Only useless things...

Only useless things are indispensable.

Source: Dactylocoque, in Litt?rature,...

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Salvador Dali: In order to...

Salvador Dali: In order to...

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to...

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