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Oscar Wilde: The public is...

Oscar Wilde: The public is...

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

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Oscar Wilde: Newspapers. . ....

Oscar Wilde: Newspapers. . ....

Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins...

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Oscar Wilde: The mere existence...

Oscar Wilde: The mere existence...

The mere existence of conscience, that faculty of which people prate so much nowadays, and are so ignorantly proud, is...

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Oscar Wilde: Gossip is charming!...

Oscar Wilde: Gossip is charming!...

Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by...

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Oscar Wilde: Ah, every day...

Oscar Wilde: Ah, every day...

Ah, every day dear Herbert becomes de plus en plus Oscarie. It is wonderful case of nature imitating...

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Alexander Pope: The vulgar boil,...

Alexander Pope: The vulgar boil,...

The vulgar boil, the learned roast an egg.

Source: Satires and Epistles of Horace...

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Alexander Pope: Who shall decide...

Alexander Pope: Who shall decide...

Who shall decide when doctors disagree?

Source: Moral Essays, III
-- Alexander...

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Alexander Pope: While pensive poets...

Alexander Pope: While pensive poets...

While pensive poets painful vigils keep
Sleepless themselves to give their readers...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Tis only noble...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Tis only noble...

Tis only noble to be good.
Kind hearts are more than coronets,
And simple faith than Norman...

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Ogden Nash: Tell me, O...

Ogden Nash: Tell me, O...

Tell me, O Octopus, I begs,
Is those things arms, or is they legs?
I marvel at thee, Octopus; If I were thou,...

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Alexander Pope: Education forms the...

Alexander Pope: Education forms the...

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


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Alexander Pope: If to her...

Alexander Pope: If to her...

If to her share some female errors fall,
Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.


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Alexander Pope: Die of a...

Alexander Pope: Die of a...

Die of a rose in aromatic pain?

Source: An Essay on Man, I. 200
-- Alexander...

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Alexander Pope: I am His...

Alexander Pope: I am His...

I am His Highness' dog at Kew;
Pray tell me sir, whose dog are you?


Source: On...

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Alexander Pope: Peeled, patched, and...

Alexander Pope: Peeled, patched, and...

Peeled, patched, and piebald, linsey-wolsey brothers,
Grave mummers! sleeveless some, and shirtless...

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Alexander Pope: You beat your...

Alexander Pope: You beat your...

You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come:
Knock as you please, there's no body at...

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William Wordsworth: A slumber did...

William Wordsworth: A slumber did...

A slumber did my spirit seal;
I had no human fears:
She seemed a thing that could not feel
The touch of...

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William Wordsworth: For I have...

William Wordsworth: For I have...

For I have learned
To look on nature, not as in the hour
Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes
The...

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William Wordsworth: The first cuckoo's...

William Wordsworth: The first cuckoo's...

The first cuckoo's melancholy cry.

Source: Miscellaneous Sonnets, I. 14, `To...

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William Wordsworth: We must be...

William Wordsworth: We must be...

We must be free or die, who speak the tongue
That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold
Which Milton...

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