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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: 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 Shakespeare: If this were...

William Shakespeare: If this were...

If this were play'd upon a stage now, I would condemn it as an improbable fiction.

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William Shakespeare: He hath eaten...

William Shakespeare: He hath eaten...

He hath eaten me out of house and home.

Source: Henry IV, Pt II, II. i. (82).
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William Shakespeare: I have touched...

William Shakespeare: I have touched...

I have touched the highest point of all my greatness, and from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my...

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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: Ambition should be...

William Shakespeare: Ambition should be...

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

Source: Julius Caesar, III. ii....

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William Shakespeare: They say best...

William Shakespeare: They say best...

They say best men are moulded out of faults,
And for the most, become much more the better
For being a little...

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William Shakespeare: Thy head is...

William Shakespeare: Thy head is...

Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat.

Source: Romeo and...

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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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