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"Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person."
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Tennessee Williams
"Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person."
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"We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off."
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Alan Bennett
"We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off."
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"The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles."
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Anton Chekhov
"The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles."
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"Just vengeance does not call for punishment."
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Pierre Corneille
"Just vengeance does not call for punishment."
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"Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine."
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Friedrich Schiller
"Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine."
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"Time is a waste of money."
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Oscar Wilde
"Time is a waste of money."
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"So wise so young, they say, do never live long."
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William Shakespeare
"So wise so young, they say, do never live long."
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"Good-night good-night! parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say good-night till it be morrow."
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William Shakespeare
"Good-night good-night! parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say good-night till it be morrow."
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"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it."
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Alexandre Dumas
"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it."
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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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"I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves."
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August Strindberg
"I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves."
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"In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed."
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Clare Boothe Luce
"In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed."
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"Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!"
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Pierre Corneille
"Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!"
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"I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains."
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William Shakespeare
"I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains."
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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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"Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass."
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Douglas William Jerrold
"Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass."
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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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"Let us not burthen our remembrance withA heaviness that's gone."
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William Shakespeare
"Let us not burthen our remembrance withA heaviness that's gone."
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"Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes."
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William Shakespeare
"Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes."
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"Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue."
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David Mallet
"Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue."
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"Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you."
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Jules Renard
"Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you."
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"Old-fashioned people think you can have a soul without money. They think the less money you have, the more soul you have. Young people nowadays know better. A soul is a very expensive thing to keep: much more so than a motor car."
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George Bernard Shaw
"Old-fashioned people think you can have a soul without money. They think the less money you have, the more soul you have. Young people nowadays know better. A soul is a very expensive thing to keep: much more so than a motor car."
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"The power of the people and the power of reason are one."
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Georg Buchner
"The power of the people and the power of reason are one."
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"Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors."
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Eugene O'Neill
"Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors."
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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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"All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness."
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Tennessee Williams
"All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness."
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"Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one."
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William Wycherley
"Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one."
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"The best way to make children good is to make them happy."
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Oscar Wilde
"The best way to make children good is to make them happy."
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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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"Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness."
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Christopher Marlowe
"Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness."
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"My noble father,I do perceive here a divided duty.To you I am bound for life and education.My life and education both do learn meHow to respect you. You are the lord of my duty,I am hitherto your daughter. But here's my husband,And so much duty as my mother showedTo you, preferring you before her father,So much I challenge that I may professDue to the Moor my lord."
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William Shakespeare
"My noble father,I do perceive here a divided duty.To you I am bound for life and education.My life and education both do learn meHow to respect you. You are the lord of my duty,I am hitherto your daughter. But here's my husband,And so much duty as my mother showedTo you, preferring you before her father,So much I challenge that I may professDue to the Moor my lord."
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"Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em."
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Thomas Otway
"Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em."
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"There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body."
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Douglas William Jerrold
"There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body."
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"No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith."
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Anton Chekhov
"No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith."
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"Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out."
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Clare Boothe Luce
"Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out."
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"How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!"
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William Shakespeare
"How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!"
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"Violence is a calm that disturbs you."
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Jean Genet
"Violence is a calm that disturbs you."
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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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"On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least."
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Jean Racine
"On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least."
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"A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband."
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Richard Steele
"A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband."
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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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"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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"Nothing is impossible to a willing heart."
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John Heywood
"Nothing is impossible to a willing heart."
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"Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices."
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Oscar Wilde
"Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices."
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"Thoughts have no sex."
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Clare Boothe Luce
"Thoughts have no sex."
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"The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror."
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Oscar Wilde
"The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror."
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"It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco.It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world."
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Oscar Wilde
"It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco.It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world."
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"'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them."
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Edward Moore
"'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them."
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"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages."
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William Shakespeare
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages."
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"If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?"
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William Shakespeare
"If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?"
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