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Ogden Nash: I would live...

Ogden Nash: I would live...

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance/Were it not for making a living, which is rather a...

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Arthur Hugh Clough: Grace is given...

Arthur Hugh Clough: Grace is given...

Grace is given of God, but knowledge is born in the market.

Source: The Bothie of...

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Vachel Lindsay: I am unjust,...

Vachel Lindsay: I am unjust,...

I am unjust, but I can strive for justice.
My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness.
I, the unloving, say...

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Stevie Smith: I'm sorry to...

Stevie Smith: I'm sorry to...

I'm sorry to say my dear wife is a dreamer,
And as she dreams she gets paler and leaner.
Then be off to your...

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Delmore Schwartz: All poets' wives...

Delmore Schwartz: All poets' wives...

All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.

Source:...

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Edith Sitwell: My poems are...

Edith Sitwell: My poems are...

My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.

Source: Collected Poems.
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Ogden Nash: There is only...

Ogden Nash: There is only...

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball,
And that is to have either a clear conscience...

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Sean O'Casey: Work! Labour the...

Sean O'Casey: Work! Labour the...

Work! Labour the aspergas me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow --security,...

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Noel Coward: My body has...

Noel Coward: My body has...

My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered...

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Oscar Wilde: A thing is...

Oscar Wilde: A thing is...

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Source: Erskine, in The...

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Thornton Wilder: Seek the lofty...

Thornton Wilder: Seek the lofty...

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

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Thornton Wilder: Ninety-nine per cent...

Thornton Wilder: Ninety-nine per cent...

Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of...

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Alexander Pope: An honest man's...

Alexander Pope: An honest man's...

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

Source: An Essay on Man, 1734
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Alexander Pope: Trust not yourself,...

Alexander Pope: Trust not yourself,...

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know. Make use of every friend and every foe.

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Thornton Wilder: Even memory is...

Thornton Wilder: Even memory is...

Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love,...

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Luigi Pirandello: Whoever has the...

Luigi Pirandello: Whoever has the...

Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will...

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J August Strindberg: I dream, therefore...

J August Strindberg: I dream, therefore...

I dream, therefore I exist.

Source: A Madman's Defense, pt. 1, ch. 7 (1968).
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Luigi Pirandello: We ride through...

Luigi Pirandello: We ride through...

We ride through life on the beast within us. Beat the animal, but you can't make it think.

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Colley Cibber: Old houses mended,<br>Cost...

Colley Cibber: Old houses mended,
Cost...

Old houses mended,
Cost little less than new before they're ended.


Source:...

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Robert Bolt: It profits a...

Robert Bolt: It profits a...

It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world. . . but for Wales!

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