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Quotes by Dramatist
"He that doth the ravens feed. Yea providently caters for the sparrow. Be comfort to my age!"
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"For I am born to tame you, Kate,And bring you from a wild Kate to a KateComfortable as other household Kates."
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"Nothing but the natural ignorance of the public, countenanced by the inoculated erroneousness of the ordinary general medical practitioners, makes such a barbarism as vaccination possible.......Recent developments have shown that an inoculation made in the usual general practitioner's light-hearted way, without previous highly skilled examination of the state of the patient's blood, is just as likely to be a simple manslaughter as a cure or preventive. But vaccination is nothing short of attempted murder. A skilled bacteriologist would just as soon think of cutting his child's arm and rubbing the contents of the dustpan into the wound, as vaccinating it in the same."
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"It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man'sto keep unmarried as long as he can."
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"The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you."
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"I say there is no darkness but ignorance."
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"Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret."
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"Man is many things, but he is not rational."
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"Life cannot be written, life can only be lived."
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"Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;But do not dull thy palm with entertainmentOf each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade."
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"One could never pay too high a price for any sensation."
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"A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold."
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"What you doStill betters what is done. When you speak, sweet.I'ld have you do it ever: when you sing,I'ld have you buy and sell so, so give alms,Pray so; and, for the ordering your affairs,To sing them too: when you do dance, I wish youA wave o' the sea, that you might ever doNothing but that; move still, still so,And own no other function: each your doing,So singular in each particular,Crowns what you are doing in the present deed,That all your acts are queens."
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"The Nazi movement is in many respects one which has my warmest sympathy."
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"Those that much covet are with gain so fond,For what they have not, that which they possessThey scatter and unloose it from their bond,And so, by hoping more, they have but less;Or, gaining more, the profit of excessIs but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain,That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain."
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"He that commends me to mine own contentCommends me to the thing I cannot get.I to the world am like a drop of waterThat in the ocean seeks another drop,Who, falling there to find his fellow forth,Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself:So I, to find a mother and a brother,In quest of them, unhappy, lose myself."
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"When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any."
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"One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer."
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"I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right."
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"You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one."
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"It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason."
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"The quality of mercy is not strained;It droppeth as the gentle rain from heavenUpon the place beneath. It is twice blessed;It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes.'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomesThe throned monarch better than his crown; * * * * *It is enthroned in the hearts of kings;It is an attribute to God himself."
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"Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense."
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"The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers."
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"Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount."
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"Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal."
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