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Quotes by Dramatist
"A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out."
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"My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy."
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"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."
39
"On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it."
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"Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before."
Love,
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"Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die."
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"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."
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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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"Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone."
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"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."
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"Every why hath a wherefore."
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"I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn't trust my own subjective responses."
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"A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished."
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"Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else."
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"Often the test of courage is not to die but to live."
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"If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want."
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"Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life."
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"The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King."
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"Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?"
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"Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering."
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"I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat."
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"Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe."
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"It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing."
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"Death is one moment, and life is so many of them."
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"What odd chaps you painters are! You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one, you seem to want to throw it away. It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than begin talked about, and that is not being talked about. A portrait like this would set you far above all the young men in England, and make the old men jealous, if old men are ever capable of any emotion."
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"The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty."
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