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Oscar Wilde: As for begging,...

Oscar Wilde: As for begging,...

As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.

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Oscar Wilde: Every great man...

Oscar Wilde: Every great man...

Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the...

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Oscar Wilde: There is no...

Oscar Wilde: There is no...

There is no sin except stupidity.

Source: Gilbert, in The Critic as Artist, pt. 2...

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Oscar Wilde: Everyone is born...

Oscar Wilde: Everyone is born...

Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.

Source: In Webster's...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Dear as remembered...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Dear as remembered...

Dear as remembered kisses after death,
And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd
On lips that are for others:...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: For men at...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: For men at...

For men at most differ as Heaven and Earth,
But women, worst and best, as Heaven and...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: God gives us...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: God gives us...

God gives us love. Something to love
He lends us; but, when love is grown
To ripeness that on which it...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Here at the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Here at the...

Here at the quiet limit of the world,
A white-haired shadow roaming like a dream
The ever-silent spaces of the...

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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: I heard the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I heard the...

I heard the water lapping on the crag,
And the long ripple washing in the reeds.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Ma?ybe she warn't...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Ma?ybe she warn't...

Ma?ybe she warn't a beauty:- I niver giv it a thowt.

Source: Northern Farmer. New...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: This is England's...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: This is England's...

This is England's greatest son,
He that gained a hundred fights,
Nor ever lost an English...

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William Shakespeare: What's gone and...

William Shakespeare: What's gone and...

What's gone and what's past help
Should be past grief.


Source: The Winter's...

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Alexander Pope: Not louder shrieks...

Alexander Pope: Not louder shrieks...

Not louder shrieks to pitying heav'n are cast,
When husbands, or when lap-dogs breathe their...

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Alexander Pope: Tis education forms...

Alexander Pope: Tis education forms...

Tis education forms the common mind,
Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.


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Alexander Pope: All are but...

Alexander Pope: All are but...

All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body nature is, and God the soul.


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Alexander Pope: Chaos of thought...

Alexander Pope: Chaos of thought...

Chaos of thought and passion, all confused;
Still by himself abused, or disabused;
Created half to rise, and...

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Alexander Pope: Be not the...

Alexander Pope: Be not the...

Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.


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Alexander Pope: At ev'ry word...

Alexander Pope: At ev'ry word...

At ev'ry word a reputation dies.

Source: The Rape of the Lock, cto. 3.
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Alexander Pope: For fools admire,...

Alexander Pope: For fools admire,...

For fools admire, but men of sense approve.

Source: An Essay on Criticism,...

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