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Quotes by Dramatist
"A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude."
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"Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount."
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"A woman's best protection is a little money of her own."
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"Make the doors upon a woman's wit,and it will out at the casement;shut that, and 'twill out at the key-hole;stop that, 'twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney."
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"Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear."
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"So may the outward shows be least themselves:The world is still deceived with ornament.In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt,But, being seasoned with a gracious voice,Obscures the show of evil? In religion,What damned error, but some sober browWill bless it and approve it with a text,Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?There is no vice so simple but assumesSome mark of virtue on his outward parts."
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"Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing."
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"There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation."
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"One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb."
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"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."
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"A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias."
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"Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone; He, just as you, Would toy and woo, He would chirp and flatter me, He would hang the wing awhile, Till at length he saw me smile, Lord! how sullen he would be!"
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"Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable."
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"James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized."
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"I'll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living."
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"As I grow to understand life less and less I grow to love it more and more."
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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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"Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices."
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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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"Assassination is the extreme form of censorship."
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"My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past."
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"Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving."
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"All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness."
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"I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me."
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"The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself."
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"There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience."
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