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Oscar Wilde: Education is an...

Oscar Wilde: Education is an...

Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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Oscar Wilde: LORD ILLINGWORTH. The...

Oscar Wilde: LORD ILLINGWORTH. The...

LORD ILLINGWORTH. The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden.
MRS ALLONBY. It ends with...

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Oscar Wilde: The man who...

Oscar Wilde: The man who...

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.

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Oscar Wilde: Pray don't talk...

Oscar Wilde: Pray don't talk...

Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel...

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Oscar Wilde: Humanity takes itself...

Oscar Wilde: Humanity takes itself...

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, the world...

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William Shakespeare: I am as...

William Shakespeare: I am as...

I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.

Source:...

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William Shakespeare: I'll never<br>Be such...

William Shakespeare: I'll never
Be such...

I'll never
Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand
As if a man were author of himself
And knew no other...

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William Shakespeare: Jack shall have...

William Shakespeare: Jack shall have...

Jack shall have Jill;
Nought shall go ill;
The man shall have his mare again,
And all shall be...

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William Shakespeare: If we shadows...

William Shakespeare: If we shadows...

If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd here
While these...

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William Shakespeare: Zounds! I was...

William Shakespeare: Zounds! I was...

Zounds! I was never so bethumped with words
Since I first called my brother's father...

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William Shakespeare: It is the...

William Shakespeare: It is the...

It is the stars,
The stars above us, govern our conditions.


Source: King Lear,...

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William Shakespeare: A walking shadow,...

William Shakespeare: A walking shadow,...

A walking shadow, a poor player,
that struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no...

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William Shakespeare: As in a...

William Shakespeare: As in a...

As in a theatre, the eyes of men,
After a well-graced actor leaves the stage,
Are idly bent on him that enters...

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William Shakespeare: He's winding up...

William Shakespeare: He's winding up...

He's winding up the watch of his wit. By and by it will strike.

Source: Sebastian,...

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William Shakespeare: For bounty, that...

William Shakespeare: For bounty, that...

For bounty, that makes gods, does still mar men.
My dearest lord, bless'd, to be most accursed,
Rich, only to be...

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William Shakespeare: I never knew...

William Shakespeare: I never knew...

I never knew so young a body with so old a head.

Source: The Merchant of Venice,...

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William Shakespeare: For, as thou...

William Shakespeare: For, as thou...

For, as thou urgest justice, be assured
Thou shalt have justice, more than thou...

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William Shakespeare: I would there...

William Shakespeare: I would there...

I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is...

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William Shakespeare: I had rather...

William Shakespeare: I had rather...

I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets here.

Source:...

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William Shakespeare: [T]ell him that...

William Shakespeare: [T]ell him that...

[T]ell him that his sword can never win
The honour that he loses . . .


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