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Oscar Wilde: He would stab...

Oscar Wilde: He would stab...

He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.

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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: It is only...

Oscar Wilde: It is only...

It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

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Oscar Wilde: In married life...

Oscar Wilde: In married life...

In married life three is company and two is none.

Source: The Importance of Being...

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Oscar Wilde: She is absolutely...

Oscar Wilde: She is absolutely...

She is absolutely inadmissible into society. Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and...

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Alexander Pope: Pride is still...

Alexander Pope: Pride is still...

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels...

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Alexander Pope: Sir Plume, of...

Alexander Pope: Sir Plume, of...

Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain,
And the nice conduct of a clouded cane.


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Alexander Pope: The vulgar boil,...

Alexander Pope: The vulgar boil,...

The vulgar boil, the learned roast an egg.

Source: Satires and Epistles of Horace...

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Alexander Pope: Thou wert my...

Alexander Pope: Thou wert my...

Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.

Source: An Essay on Man, IV. 390
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Alexander Pope: Waller was smooth;...

Alexander Pope: Waller was smooth;...

Waller was smooth; but Dryden taught to join
The varying verse, the full-resounding line,
The long majestic...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: A sorrow's crown...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: A sorrow's crown...

A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: A pasty costly...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: A pasty costly...

A pasty costly made,
Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay,
Like fossils of the rock, with golden...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: But the jingling...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: But the jingling...

But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honour feels.

Source: Locksley...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: And the stately...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: And the stately...

And the stately ships go on
To their haven under the hill;
But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand,
And the...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Bright and fierce...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Bright and fierce...

Bright and fierce and fickle is the South,
And dark and true and tender is the North.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Birds in the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Birds in the...

Birds in the high Hall-garden
When twilight was falling,
Maud, Maud, Maud, Maud,
They were crying and...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Come into the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Come into the...

Come into the garden, Maud,
For the black bat, night, has flown,
Come into the garden, Maud,
I am here at the...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Her tears fell...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Her tears fell...

Her tears fell with the dews at even;
Her tears fell ere the dews were dried.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: High above roaring...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: High above roaring...

High above roaring Temple-bar,
And set in Heaven's third storey,
I look at all things as they are,
But thro'...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Lady Clara Vere...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Lady Clara Vere...

Lady Clara Vere de Vere,
Of me you shall not win renown:
You thought to break a country heart
For pastime,...

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