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"Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!"
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Zora Neale Hurston
"Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!"
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"A woman's best protection is a little money of her own."
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Clare Boothe Luce
"A woman's best protection is a little money of her own."
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"A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy."
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Jean Racine
"A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy."
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"We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules."
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Alan Bennett
"We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules."
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"Every man loves what he is good at."
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Thomas Shadwell
"Every man loves what he is good at."
Man,
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"To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it."
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Wilson Mizner
"To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it."
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"Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there."
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Clare Boothe Luce
"Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there."
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"What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams."
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Pedro Calderon
"What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams."
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"There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go."
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Tennessee Williams
"There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go."
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"Virtue is the fount whence honour springs."
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Christopher Marlowe
"Virtue is the fount whence honour springs."
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"Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, but gold that's put to use more gold begets."
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William Shakespeare
"Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, but gold that's put to use more gold begets."
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"If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding."
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Zora Neale Hurston
"If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding."
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"Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished."
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Wilson Mizner
"Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished."
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"You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself."
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Dennis Potter
"You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself."
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"The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face."
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Clare Boothe Luce
"The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face."
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"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."
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George Bernard Shaw
"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."
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"A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth."
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Edward Albee
"A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth."
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"Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court."
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William Wycherley
"Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court."
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"Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment."
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Thomas Otway
"Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment."
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"The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be."
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Marcel Pagnol
"The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be."
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"A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory."
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Pierre Corneille
"A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory."
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"Will it, and set to work briskly."
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Friedrich Schiller
"Will it, and set to work briskly."
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"Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die."
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Vittorio Alfieri
"Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die."
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"Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny."
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Pierre Corneille
"Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny."
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"Suit the action to the word, the word to the action."
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William Shakespeare
"Suit the action to the word, the word to the action."
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"I think childhood is to everyone a lost land."
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Dennis Potter
"I think childhood is to everyone a lost land."
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"I think that NATO is itself a war criminal."
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Harold Pinter
"I think that NATO is itself a war criminal."
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"Most people do not pray; they only beg."
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George Bernard Shaw
"Most people do not pray; they only beg."
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"There are two births: the one when light, First strikes the new awakened sense; The other when two souls unite, And we must count our life from thence, When you loved me and I loved you, Then both of us were born anew."
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William Cartwright
"There are two births: the one when light, First strikes the new awakened sense; The other when two souls unite, And we must count our life from thence, When you loved me and I loved you, Then both of us were born anew."
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"We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dreamlife."
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David Mamet
"We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dreamlife."
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"O fortune fortune! all men call thee fickle."
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William Shakespeare
"O fortune fortune! all men call thee fickle."
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"Love's tongue is in his eyes."
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John Fletcher
"Love's tongue is in his eyes."
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"The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist."
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Wole Soyinka
"The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist."
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"We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress."
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Tennessee Williams
"We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress."
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"All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent."
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Tennessee Williams
"All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent."
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"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray."
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Oscar Wilde
"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray."
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"When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied."
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Pierre Corneille
"When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied."
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"One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers."
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Eugene O'Neill
"One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers."
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"Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word."
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Dennis Potter
"Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word."
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"When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured."
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Anton Chekhov
"When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured."
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"If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks."
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Brendan Behan
"If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks."
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"The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not."
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George Bernard Shaw
"The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not."
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"Tis torture, and not mercy. Heaven is here Where Juliet lives, and every cat and dog And little mouse, every unworthy thing, Live here in heaven and may look on her, But Romeo may not."
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William Shakespeare
"Tis torture, and not mercy. Heaven is here Where Juliet lives, and every cat and dog And little mouse, every unworthy thing, Live here in heaven and may look on her, But Romeo may not."
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"A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else."
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Pierre Corneille
"A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else."
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"I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale."
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George Farquhar
"I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale."
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"Nothing leads to good that is not natural."
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Friedrich Schiller
"Nothing leads to good that is not natural."
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"Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends."
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George Bernard Shaw
"Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends."
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"The will of man is his happiness."
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Friedrich Schiller
"The will of man is his happiness."
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"The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow."
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John Ciardi
"The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow."
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"A good memory is needed after one has lied."
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Pierre Corneille
"A good memory is needed after one has lied."
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