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Thomas Middleton: This was a...

Thomas Middleton: This was a...

This was a good week's labor.

Source: Anything for a Quiet Life, act 5, sc....

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Menander: We live, not...

Menander: We live, not...

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Philip Massinger: Immature poets imitate,...

Philip Massinger: Immature poets imitate,...

Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Alexandre Dumas, fils: Infatuated, half through...

Alexandre Dumas, fils: Infatuated, half through...

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever...

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Alexandre Dumas, fils: Business? it's quite...

Alexandre Dumas, fils: Business? it's quite...

Business? it's quite simple: it's other people's money.

Source: Giraud, in La...

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Jean Racine: Crime, like virtue,...

Jean Racine: Crime, like virtue,...

Crime, like virtue, has its degrees. (Ainsi que la vertue le crime a ses degr?s.)

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Jean Racine: Without money honor...

Jean Racine: Without money honor...

Without money honor is merely a disease.

Source: Petit Jean, in Les Plaideurs, act...

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Aristophanes: These impossible women!...

Aristophanes: These impossible women!...

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without...

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George Farquhar: Sir, you shall...

George Farquhar: Sir, you shall...

Sir, you shall taste my Anno Domini.

Source: The Beaux' Stratagem, I. i
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George Farquhar: There's no scandal...

George Farquhar: There's no scandal...

There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

Source: The...

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Moli?re: The trees that...

Moli?re: The trees that...

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Source: In Quotable Business,...

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John Ciardi: What has any...

John Ciardi: What has any...

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it...

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Tom Stoppard: The truth is...

Tom Stoppard: The truth is...

The truth is always a compound of two half-truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to...

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Zora Neale Hurston: Research is formalized...

Zora Neale Hurston: Research is formalized...

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

Source:...

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John Fletcher: There 's naught...

John Fletcher: There 's naught...

There 's naught in this life sweet,
If man were wise to see 't,
But only melancholy;
O sweetest...

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Neither a lofty...

Neither a lofty...

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love,...

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I seem to...

I seem to...

I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third...

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I'm Gonna Wash...

I'm Gonna Wash...

I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out of My Hair.

Source: South Pacific, Title of...

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One cannot judge...

One cannot judge...

One cannot judge 'Lohengrin' from a first hearing, and I certainly do not intend to hear it a second...

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I must absorb...

I must absorb...

I must absorb everything while I'm still singing and step onto the stages of my many homes, and look out at the...

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