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George Bernard Shaw: Virtue is insufficient...

George Bernard Shaw: Virtue is insufficient...

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

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-- George Bernard Shaw, (Jul 26...

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Christopher Marlowe: There is no...

Christopher Marlowe: There is no...

There is no sin but ignorance.

Source: The Jew of Malta, 1589.
-- Christopher...

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Christopher Marlowe: Was this the...

Christopher Marlowe: Was this the...

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships? And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal...

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Lorraine Hansberry: One cannot live...

Lorraine Hansberry: One cannot live...

One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the...

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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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Noel Coward: Wit ought to...

Noel Coward: Wit ought to...

Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it about like marmalade.

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Nathalie Sarraute: Those who live...

Nathalie Sarraute: Those who live...

Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.

Source: In ...

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Emily Dickinson: Tis so much...

Emily Dickinson: Tis so much...

'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a...

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Emily Dickinson: Anger as soon...

Emily Dickinson: Anger as soon...

Anger as soon as fed is dead -
'Tis starving makes it fat.


Source: Poems, Second...

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Emily Dickinson: A Deed knocks...

Emily Dickinson: A Deed knocks...

A Deed knocks first at Thought
And then -- it knocks at Will --
That is the manufacturing...

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Emily Dickinson: Assent--and you are...

Emily Dickinson: Assent--and you are...

Assent--and you are sane--,
Demur--you're straightway dangerous--,
And handled with a...

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Emily Dickinson: A great Hope...

Emily Dickinson: A great Hope...

A great Hope fell
You heard no noise
The Ruin was within.


Source: c.1864,...

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Emily Dickinson: After great pain,...

Emily Dickinson: After great pain,...

After great pain, a formal feeling comes.
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.


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Thomas Shadwell: No man is...

Thomas Shadwell: No man is...

No man is happy but by comparison.

Source: In The Forbes Book of Business...

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William Wycherley: Your women of...

William Wycherley: Your women of...

Your women of honour, as you call'em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'tis scandal that...

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Luigi Pirandello: Drama is action,...

Luigi Pirandello: Drama is action,...

Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy.

Source: Six Characters...

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Ethel Watts Mumford: Don't take the...

Ethel Watts Mumford: Don't take the...

Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed!

Source: In The Last Word - A...

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Aphra Behn: Love ceases to...

Aphra Behn: Love ceases to...

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Source: The Lover's...

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Aphra Behn: Love's a thin...

Aphra Behn: Love's a thin...

Love's a thin diet, nor will keep out cold.

Source: The Lucky Chance, 1686.
--...

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Robert Frost: I shall be...

Robert Frost: I shall be...

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I...

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