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Quotes by Dramatist
"Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises."
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"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question."
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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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"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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"Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together."
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"I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control."
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"In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever."
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"If there were a sympathy in choice,War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it,Making it momentary as a sound,Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,Brief as the lightning in the collied nightThat, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!'The jaws of darkness do devour it up;So quick bright things come to confusion."
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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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"Death is one moment, and life is so many of them."
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"Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes."
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"If you can run one business well, you can run any business well."
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"Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down."
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"Desire of having is the sin of covetousness."
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"It is easy to give advice from a port of safety."
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"There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth."
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"The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy, and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes."
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"I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence."
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"Assassination is the extreme form of censorship."
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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 glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade."
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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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"Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too."
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"It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting."
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