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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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"A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace."
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Tennessee Williams
"A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace."
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"The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages."
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Friedrich Schiller
"The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages."
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"Success and failure are equally disastrous."
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Tennessee Williams
"Success and failure are equally disastrous."
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"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired."
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Jules Renard
"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired."
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"It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain.It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also."
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Oscar Wilde
"It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain.It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also."
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"You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie."
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Georg Buchner
"You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie."
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"How did I get to Hollywood? By train."
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John Ford
"How did I get to Hollywood? By train."
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"Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs."
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Thomas Kyd
"Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs."
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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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"Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up."
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Tom Stoppard
"Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up."
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"Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven."
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Pierre Corneille
"Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven."
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"Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, in my heart of heart, as I do thee."
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William Shakespeare
"Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, in my heart of heart, as I do thee."
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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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"Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?"
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Alan Bennett
"Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?"
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"There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls,Doing more murder in this loathsome world,Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell."
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William Shakespeare
"There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls,Doing more murder in this loathsome world,Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell."
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"Everything we do has consequences."
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Dennis Potter
"Everything we do has consequences."
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"Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble."
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Vittorio Alfieri
"Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble."
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"Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power."
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Tom Stoppard
"Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power."
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"Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!"
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Georg Buchner
"Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!"
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"Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every human being should be the realisation of some ideal, either in the mind of God or in the mind of man."
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Oscar Wilde
"Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every human being should be the realisation of some ideal, either in the mind of God or in the mind of man."
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"Hang there like a fruit, my soul, Till the tree die!-Posthumus LeonatusAct V, Scene V."
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William Shakespeare
"Hang there like a fruit, my soul, Till the tree die!-Posthumus LeonatusAct V, Scene V."
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"I find the medicine worse than the malady."
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John Fletcher
"I find the medicine worse than the malady."
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"The secret of success is sincerity."
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Jean Giraudoux
"The secret of success is sincerity."
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"Love makes those young whom age doth chill, and whom he finds young keeps young still."
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William Cartwright
"Love makes those young whom age doth chill, and whom he finds young keeps young still."
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"Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it."
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Tom Stoppard
"Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it."
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"To win without risk is to triumph without glory."
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Pierre Corneille
"To win without risk is to triumph without glory."
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"One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on."
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Aphra Behn
"One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on."
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"A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes."
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Clare Boothe Luce
"A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes."
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"Of all knowledge, the wise and good seek mostly to know themselves."
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William Shakespeare
"Of all knowledge, the wise and good seek mostly to know themselves."
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"Often the test of courage is not to die but to live."
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Vittorio Alfieri
"Often the test of courage is not to die but to live."
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"A civil servant doesn't make jokes."
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Eugene Ionesco
"A civil servant doesn't make jokes."
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"Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them."
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Thomas Dekker
"Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them."
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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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"To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance."
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Jean Genet
"To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance."
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"For trust not him that hath once broken faith."
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William Shakespeare
"For trust not him that hath once broken faith."
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"Mine honor is my life; both grow in one.Take honor from me, and my life is done."
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William Shakespeare
"Mine honor is my life; both grow in one.Take honor from me, and my life is done."
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"I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action."
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Tennessee Williams
"I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action."
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"We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us."
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Georg Buchner
"We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us."
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"The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it."
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John Ciardi
"The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it."
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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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"If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want."
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Oscar Wilde
"If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want."
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"To be, or not to be: that is the question."
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William Shakespeare
"To be, or not to be: that is the question."
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"I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity."
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Tom Stoppard
"I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity."
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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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"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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"There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny."
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Friedrich Schiller
"There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny."
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"Great men may jest with saints 'tis wit in them But in the less foul profanation."
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William Shakespeare
"Great men may jest with saints 'tis wit in them But in the less foul profanation."
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"Women have no appreciation of good looks-at least, good women have not."
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Oscar Wilde
"Women have no appreciation of good looks-at least, good women have not."
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