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Oscar Wilde: It is only...

Oscar Wilde: It is only...

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial...

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Oscar Wilde: A man's face...

Oscar Wilde: A man's face...

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

Source:...

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Oscar Wilde: And now, I...

Oscar Wilde: And now, I...

And now, I am dying beyond my means.

Source: Sipping champagne on his...

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Oscar Wilde: Most of our...

Oscar Wilde: Most of our...

Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what...

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William Shakespeare: If I do...

William Shakespeare: If I do...

If I do dream, would all my wealth would wake me!
If I do wake, some planet strike me down,
That I may slumber...

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William Shakespeare: The eagle suffers...

William Shakespeare: The eagle suffers...

The eagle suffers little birds to sing,
And is not careful what they mean thereby.


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William Shakespeare: If one good...

William Shakespeare: If one good...

If one good deed in all my life I did,
I do repent it from my very soul.


Source:...

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William Shakespeare: Narcissus so himself...

William Shakespeare: Narcissus so himself...

Narcissus so himself himself forsook,
And died to kiss his shadow in the brook.


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William Shakespeare: Nor gives it...

William Shakespeare: Nor gives it...

Nor gives it satisfaction to our blood,
That we must curb it upon others' proof;
To be forbod the sweets that...

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Walter Bagehot: A severe though...

Walter Bagehot: A severe though...

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go...

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George Bernard Shaw: Parentage is a...

George Bernard Shaw: Parentage is a...

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the...

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George Bernard Shaw: Very nice sort...

George Bernard Shaw: Very nice sort...

Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.

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George Bernard Shaw: Vulgarity in a...

George Bernard Shaw: Vulgarity in a...

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

Source: Man and Superman, ...

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George Bernard Shaw: When it comes...

George Bernard Shaw: When it comes...

When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

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George Bernard Shaw: You are a...

George Bernard Shaw: You are a...

You are a very poor soldier: a chocolate cream soldier!

Source: Arms and the Man,...

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George Bernard Shaw: You are all...

George Bernard Shaw: You are all...

You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and...

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William Wordsworth: The darkest pit<br>Of...

William Wordsworth: The darkest pit
Of...

The darkest pit
Of the profoundest hell, chaos, night,
Nor aught of blinder vacancy scooped out
By help of...

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William Wordsworth: Poetry is the...

William Wordsworth: Poetry is the...

Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance...

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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: 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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