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Quotes by Dramatist
"He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural."
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"In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons."
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"A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods."
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"One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers."
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"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."
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"I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much."
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"Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground."
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"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose."
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"Philosophy cannot be taught, it is the application of the sciences to truth."
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"Princess, the great difference between people in this world is not between the rich and the poor or the good and the evil, the biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have the pleasure in love and those that haven't and hadn't any pleasure in love, but just watched it with envy, sick envy. The spectators and the performers."
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"There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind."
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"For I am born to tame you, Kate,And bring you from a wild Kate to a KateComfortable as other household Kates."
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"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."
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"In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us."
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"I don't mean what other people mean when they speak of a home, because I don't regard a home as a...well, as a place, a building...a house...of wood, bricks, stone. I think of a home as being a thing that two people have between them in which each can...well, nest."
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"Fit to govern? No, not fit to live."
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"There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance."
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"I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring."
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"For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to leave behind a school, or a well, or something of the sort, so that life would not pass by and retreat into eternity without a trace."
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