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Oscar Wilde: When liberty comes...

Oscar Wilde: When liberty comes...

When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.

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Oscar Wilde: Between men and...

Oscar Wilde: Between men and...

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no...

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Oscar Wilde: Conscience makes egotists...

Oscar Wilde: Conscience makes egotists...

Conscience makes egotists of us all.

Source: Lord Henry, in The Picture of Dorian...

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Oscar Wilde: Anybody can be...

Oscar Wilde: Anybody can be...

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

Source: Lord...

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Oscar Wilde: Civilisation is not...

Oscar Wilde: Civilisation is not...

Civilisation is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One...

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Oscar Wilde: And yet, and...

Oscar Wilde: And yet, and...

And yet, and yet,
These Christs that die upon the barricades,
God knows it I am with them, in some...

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Oscar Wilde: Most people die...

Oscar Wilde: Most people die...

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never...

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Oscar Wilde: Wordsworth went to...

Oscar Wilde: Wordsworth went to...

Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: You know my...

Arthur Conan Doyle: You know my...

You know my method. It is founded upon the observance of trifles.

Source: The...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: Depend upon it...

Arthur Conan Doyle: Depend upon it...

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: When you get...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: When you get...

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a...

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Anatole France: Never lend books,...

Anatole France: Never lend books,...

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them. The only books I have in my library are those that other folks have...

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James Allen: In all human...

James Allen: In all human...

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: I despise the...

Mary Wortley Montagu: I despise the...

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

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-- Mary...

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Honore de Balzac: There is no...

Honore de Balzac: There is no...

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will-power.

Source: La Muse...

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Thomas Carlyle: Vain hope to...

Thomas Carlyle: Vain hope to...

Vain hope to make people happy by politics!

Source: 'Journal', Oct. 10, 1831
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Henry David Thoreau: Faith keeps many...

Henry David Thoreau: Faith keeps many...

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

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Marcus Tullius Cicero: He cannot be...

Marcus Tullius Cicero: He cannot be...

He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.

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Marcus Tullius Cicero: Every stage of...

Marcus Tullius Cicero: Every stage of...

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise...

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Marcus Tullius Cicero: I add this,...

Marcus Tullius Cicero: I add this,...

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without...

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