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Quotes by Dramatist
"You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing. You lost life's secret."
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"Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious."
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"The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well."
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"The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it."
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"The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle."
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"Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels."
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"I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none."
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"Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing."
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"Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne? I ask merely for information.I attribute it to the superior quality of the wine, sir. I have often observed that in married households the champagne is rarely of a first-rate brand.Good Heavens! Is marriage so demoralizing as that?I believe it is a very pleasant state, sir. I have had very little experience of it myself up to the present. I have only been married once. That was in consequence of a misunderstanding between myself and a young person."
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"The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development."
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"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people."
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"O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!"
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"It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing."
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"Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others."
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"Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old."
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