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George Bernard Shaw: Men are not...

George Bernard Shaw: Men are not...

Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they...

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George Bernard Shaw: The man who...

George Bernard Shaw: The man who...

The man who listens to Reason is lost; Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master...

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George Bernard Shaw: The greatest evils...

George Bernard Shaw: The greatest evils...

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration...

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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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Walter Bagehot: It is good...

Walter Bagehot: It is good...

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

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William Shakespeare: By medicine life...

William Shakespeare: By medicine life...

By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death
Will seize the doctor too.


Source:...

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William Shakespeare: For mine own...

William Shakespeare: For mine own...

For mine own part, I could be well content
To entertain the lag-end of my life
With quiet...

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William Shakespeare: There is occasions...

William Shakespeare: There is occasions...

There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things.

Source: Henry V, V....

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William Shakespeare: For my own...

William Shakespeare: For my own...

For my own part, it was Greek to me.

Source: Julius Caesar, I. i. (288).
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William Shakespeare: O! Let me...

William Shakespeare: O! Let me...

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven!
Keep me in temper; I would not be mad.


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William Shakespeare: Striving to better,...

William Shakespeare: Striving to better,...

Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.

Source: King Lear, I. iv. (370).
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William Shakespeare: As in a...

William Shakespeare: As in a...

As in a theatre, the eyes of men,
After a well-graced actor leaves the stage,
Are idly bent on him that enters...

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William Shakespeare: When to the...

William Shakespeare: When to the...

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a...

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William Shakespeare: Tis mad idolatry<br>To...

William Shakespeare: Tis mad idolatry
To...

Tis mad idolatry
To make the service greater than the god.


Source: Troilus and...

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William Shakespeare: . . ....

William Shakespeare: . . ....

. . . We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a...

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William Shakespeare: I would there...

William Shakespeare: I would there...

I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is...

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Francis Bacon: A man must...

Francis Bacon: A man must...

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

Source: Advancement of...

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We are not...

We are not...

We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong.

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When a person...

When a person...

When a person dies who does any one thing better than anyone else in the world, which so many others are trying to do...

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Wit is the...

Wit is the...

Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education.

Source: In...

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