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Quotes by Dramatist
"If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research."
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"A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally."
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"We possess only the happiness we are able to understand."
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"Science never solves a problem without creating ten more."
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"The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones."
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"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."
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"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
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"When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured."
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"If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all."
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"Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear."
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"I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control."
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"It is easy-terribly easy-to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to to break a man's spirit is Devil's work."
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"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
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"The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation that away Men are but gilded loam or painted clay."
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"The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember."
Past,
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"Mark it, nuncle.Have more than thou showest,Speak less than thou knowest,Lend less than thou owest,Ride more than thou goest,Learn more than thou trowest,Set less than thou throwest,Leave thy drink and thy whoreAnd keep in-a-door,And thou shalt have moreThan two tens to a score."
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"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
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"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question."
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"It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood."
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"Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in."
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"Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises."
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"LEONATOWell, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.BEATRICENot till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred."
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"High hopes were once formed of democracy, but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people."
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"POLONIUS : My Lord, I will use them according to their desert.HAMLET : God's bodykins man, better. Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honour and dignity. The less they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty."
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"In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it."
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