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George Bernard Shaw: All that the...

George Bernard Shaw: All that the...

All that the young can do for the old is to shock them and keep them up to date.

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George Bernard Shaw: A perpetual holiday...

George Bernard Shaw: A perpetual holiday...

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

Source: Quoted by Charles...

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George Bernard Shaw: Democracy substitutes election...

George Bernard Shaw: Democracy substitutes election...

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

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George Bernard Shaw: If you must...

George Bernard Shaw: If you must...

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not an...

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William Wordsworth: You must love...

William Wordsworth: You must love...

You must love him, ere to you
He will seem worthy of your love.


Source: A Poet's...

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William Wordsworth: The rainbow comes...

William Wordsworth: The rainbow comes...

The rainbow comes and goes,
And lovely is the rose,
The moon doth with delight
Look round her when the...

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William Wordsworth: I saw her...

William Wordsworth: I saw her...

I saw her upon nearer view,
A spirit, yet a woman too!
Her household motions light and free,
And steps of...

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William Wordsworth: For by superior...

William Wordsworth: For by superior...

For by superior energies; more strict
Affiance in each other; faith more firm
In their unhallowed principles,...

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George Farquhar: My Lady Bountiful....

George Farquhar: My Lady Bountiful....

My Lady Bountiful.

Source: The Beaux' Stratagem, I. i
-- George Farquhar, ( ...

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George Bernard Shaw: O Lord!...

George Bernard Shaw: O Lord!...

O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to...

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George Bernard Shaw: Man is the...

George Bernard Shaw: Man is the...

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its...

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George Bernard Shaw: The seven deadly...

George Bernard Shaw: The seven deadly...

The seven deadly sins. . . . Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those...

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James Matthew Barrie: If you have...

James Matthew Barrie: If you have...

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what...

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William Shakespeare: I am as...

William Shakespeare: I am as...

I am as poor as Job, my lord, but not so patient.

Source: Henry IV, Pt II, I. ii....

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William Shakespeare: Heat not a...

William Shakespeare: Heat not a...

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

Source: Henry...

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William Shakespeare: Neither a borrower...

William Shakespeare: Neither a borrower...

Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of...

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William Shakespeare: These earthly godfathers...

William Shakespeare: These earthly godfathers...

These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights,
That give a name to every fixed star,
Have no more profit of their...

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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: Haste still pays...

William Shakespeare: Haste still pays...

Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure;
Like doth quit like, and Measure still for...

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William Shakespeare: Tis an ill...

William Shakespeare: Tis an ill...

Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

Source: Romeo and Juliet,...

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