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Oscar Wilde: Only dull people...

Oscar Wilde: Only dull people...

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

Source: Mrs. Cheveley, in An Ideal...

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Oscar Wilde: The gods bestowed...

Oscar Wilde: The gods bestowed...

The gods bestowed on Max the gift of perpetual old age.

Source: Referring to Max...

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Oscar Wilde: CECILY. When I...

Oscar Wilde: CECILY. When I...

CECILY. When I see a spade I call it a spade.
GWENDOLEN. I am glad to say I have never seen a spade. It is obvious...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: For words, like...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: For words, like...

For words, like Nature, half reveal
And half conceal the Soul within.


Source: In...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: God of battles,...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: God of battles,...

God of battles, was ever a battle like this in the world before?

Source: The...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: He seems so...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: He seems so...

He seems so near and yet so far.

Source: In Memoriam, 97 (Note: the stanza numbers...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I dreamed there...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I dreamed there...

I dreamed there would be Spring no more,
That Nature's ancient power was lost.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Let us hob-and-nob...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Let us hob-and-nob...

Let us hob-and-nob with Death.

Source: The Village of Sin, 34
-- Alfred, Lord...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Live pure, speak...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Live pure, speak...

Live pure, speak true, right wrong, follow the King -
Else, wherefore born?


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Oh teach me...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Oh teach me...

Oh teach me yet
Somewhat before the heavy clod
Weighs on me, and the busy fret
Of that sharp-headed worm...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: So careful of...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: So careful of...

So careful of the type she seems,
So careless of the single life.


Source: In...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Thy voice is...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Thy voice is...

Thy voice is on the rolling air;
I hear thee where the waters run;
Thou standest in the rising sun,
And in...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The sequel of...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The sequel of...

The sequel of to-day unsolders all
The goodliest fellowship of famous knights
Whereof this world holds...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Upon the middle...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Upon the middle...

Upon the middle of the night.
Waking she heard the night-fowl crow.


Source:...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Wearing all that...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Wearing all that...

Wearing all that weight
Of learning lightly like a flower.


Source: In Memoriam,...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Thro' scudding drifts...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Thro' scudding drifts...

Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades
Vext the dim sea.


Source: Ulysses,...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: You must wake...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: You must wake...

You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear;
To-morrow 'ill be the happiest time of all the glad...

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George Bernard Shaw: Virtue consists, not...

George Bernard Shaw: Virtue consists, not...

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

Source:...

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George Bernard Shaw: To correct an...

George Bernard Shaw: To correct an...

To correct an Englishman's pronunciation is to imply that he is not quite a gentleman.

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George Bernard Shaw: When I was...

George Bernard Shaw: When I was...

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a...

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