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Quotes by Dramatist
"Gods always behave like the people who make them."
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"In every pleasure, cruelty has its place..."
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"Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities."
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"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."
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"Give women the right opportunities and they are capable of everything."
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"The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry."
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"Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy But not express'd in fancy rich not gaudy For the apparel oft proclaims the man."
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"Love moderately. Long love doth so.Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.Love each other in moderation. That is the key to long-lasting love. Too fast is as bad as too slow."
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"Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers."
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"It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser."
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"Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak."
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"Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others."
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"Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct."
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"Society--civilized society, at least--is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef ... Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees..."
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"Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it."
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"If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward."
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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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"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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