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Quotes by Dramatist
"The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation that away Men are but gilded loam or painted clay."
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"If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research."
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"We possess only the happiness we are able to understand."
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"Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves."
Day,
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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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"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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"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
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"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."
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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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"Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises."
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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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"If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all."
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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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"The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork."
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"I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control."
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"We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it."
Fire,
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"All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable."
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"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."
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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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"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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"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."
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"It is easy to give advice from a port of safety."
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"I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action."
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"I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word."
Word,
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"It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting."
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"If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it."
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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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"Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together."
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"Let me have war, say I: it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy; mulled, deaf, sleepy, insensible; a getter of more bastard children than war's a destroyer of men."
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