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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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"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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"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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"It is not how old you are, but how you are old."
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Jules Renard
"It is not how old you are, but how you are old."
Old,
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"Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures."
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William Wycherley
"Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures."
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"Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?"
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Tom Stoppard
"Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?"
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"He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?"
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William Wycherley
"He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?"
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"One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly."
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Georg Buchner
"One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly."
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"I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?"
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Harold Pinter
"I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?"
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"A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination."
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Arthur W. Pinero
"A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination."
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"I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management."
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Jean Giraudoux
"I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management."
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"Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities."
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Oscar Wilde
"Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities."
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"Love that is not madness is not love."
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Pedro Calderon
"Love that is not madness is not love."
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"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are they who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them make them."
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George Bernard Shaw
"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are they who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them make them."
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"We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness."
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Pierre Corneille
"We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness."
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"So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair."
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Antonin Artaud
"So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair."
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"The doctors found out that Bunbury could not live, that is what I mean - so Bunbury died.He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians. I am glad, however, that he made up his mind at the last to some definite course of action, and acted under proper medical advice."
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Oscar Wilde
"The doctors found out that Bunbury could not live, that is what I mean - so Bunbury died.He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians. I am glad, however, that he made up his mind at the last to some definite course of action, and acted under proper medical advice."
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"Justice in the extreme is often unjust."
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Jean Racine
"Justice in the extreme is often unjust."
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"The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail."
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Wole Soyinka
"The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail."
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"Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire."
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George Bernard Shaw
"Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire."
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"I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it."
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Hugh Leonard
"I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it."
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"Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt."
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Harold Pinter
"Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt."
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"Love is a tyrant sparing none."
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Pierre Corneille
"Love is a tyrant sparing none."
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"If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be."
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John Heywood
"If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be."
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"If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism."
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Oscar Wilde
"If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism."
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"I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion."
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Pierre Corneille
"I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion."
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"He knows nothing, and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career."
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George Bernard Shaw
"He knows nothing, and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career."
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"Foul whisperings are abroad."
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William Shakespeare
"Foul whisperings are abroad."
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"This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement."
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Harold Pinter
"This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement."
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"You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?"
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George Bernard Shaw
"You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?"
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"A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier."
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Tom Stoppard
"A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier."
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"I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon."
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Tom Stoppard
"I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon."
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"Says he, 'I am a handsome man, but I'm a gay deceiver'."
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George Colman
"Says he, 'I am a handsome man, but I'm a gay deceiver'."
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"A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible."
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Jean Giraudoux
"A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible."
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"There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it."
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George Bernard Shaw
"There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it."
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"Now is the winter of our discontent."
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William Shakespeare
"Now is the winter of our discontent."
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"Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is."
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Tennessee Williams
"Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is."
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"Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.And falsehoods the truths of other people.Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance."
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Oscar Wilde
"Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.And falsehoods the truths of other people.Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance."
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"The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error."
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Friedrich Schiller
"The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error."
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"Life is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
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William Shakespeare
"Life is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
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"Out of her favour, where I am in love."
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William Shakespeare
"Out of her favour, where I am in love."
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"Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts."
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Clare Boothe Luce
"Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts."
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"I wish you all the joy that you can wish."
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William Shakespeare
"I wish you all the joy that you can wish."
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