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Quotes by Dramatist
"He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice."
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"If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older."
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"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."
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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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"Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism."
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"Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo."
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"All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial."
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"Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse."
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"The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered."
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"I'll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living."
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"Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together."
Time,
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"I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me."
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"Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power."
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"O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!"
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"Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world."
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"Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow."
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"I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else."
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"He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts."
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"I rather would entreat thy companyTo see the wonders of the world abroadThan, living dully sluggardiz'd at home,Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness."
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"Brief as the lightning in the collied night;That, 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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"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."
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"Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave."
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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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"The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles."
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"Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children."
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