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William Shakespeare: They'll take suggestion...

William Shakespeare: They'll take suggestion...

They'll take suggestion as a cat laps milk.

Source: The Tempest, II. i....

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W C Fields: My illness is...

W C Fields: My illness is...

My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless...

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George Bernard Shaw: What the world...

George Bernard Shaw: What the world...

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

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George Bernard Shaw: A man's interest...

George Bernard Shaw: A man's interest...

A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is...

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George Bernard Shaw: Better never than...

George Bernard Shaw: Better never than...

Better never than late.

Source: Responding to an offer by a producer to present one...

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George Bernard Shaw: Beauty is all...

George Bernard Shaw: Beauty is all...

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three...

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George Bernard Shaw: Never forget that...

George Bernard Shaw: Never forget that...

Never forget that two blacks do not make a white.

Source: The Adventures of the...

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George Bernard Shaw: Life at its...

George Bernard Shaw: Life at its...

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannnot endure it. . . . Happiness is not the object...

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George Farquhar: Twas for the...

George Farquhar: Twas for the...

'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. Anything for the good of one's country - I'm a Roman for...

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William Wordsworth: Tis said that...

William Wordsworth: Tis said that...

'Tis said that some have died for love.

Source: ''Tis Said That Some Have...

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William Wordsworth: Ne'er saw I,...

William Wordsworth: Ne'er saw I,...

Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!
The river glideth at his own sweet will:
Dear God! the very houses seem...

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William Wordsworth: By our own...

William Wordsworth: By our own...

By our own spirits are we deified:
We poets in our youth begin in gladness;
But thereof come in the end...

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William Wordsworth: I thought of...

William Wordsworth: I thought of...

I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy,
The sleepless soul that perished in his...

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William Wordsworth: The brook and...

William Wordsworth: The brook and...

The brook and road
Were fellow-travellers in this gloomy strait.


Source: The...

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William Wordsworth: The stars of...

William Wordsworth: The stars of...

The stars of midnight shall be dear
To her; and she shall lean her ear
In many a secret...

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William Wordsworth: Like an army...

William Wordsworth: Like an army...

Like an army defeated
The snow hath retreated.


Source: Written in March.
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George Bernard Shaw: Life levels all...

George Bernard Shaw: Life levels all...

Life levels all men: death reveals the eminent.

Source: Maxims for...

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George Bernard Shaw: Why, except as...

George Bernard Shaw: Why, except as...

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in,...

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Oscar Wilde: The basis of...

Oscar Wilde: The basis of...

The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to...

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Oscar Wilde: To get into...

Oscar Wilde: To get into...

To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock...

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