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Quotes by Dramatist
"What is your substance, whereof are you made,That millions of strange shadows on you tend?Since everyone hath every one, one shade,And you, but one, can every shadow lend.Describe Adonis, and the counterfeitIs poorly imitated after you.On Helen's cheek all art of beauty set,And you in Grecian tires are painted new.Speak of the spring and foison of the year;The one doth shadow of your beauty show,The other as your bounty doth appear,And you in every blessA d shape we know.In all external grace you have some part,But you like none, none you, for constant heart."
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"He was a man of most subtle and refined intellect. A man of culture, charm, and distinction. One of the most intellectual men I ever met.""I prefer a gentlemanly fool any day. There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose."
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"Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors."
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"He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural."
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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
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"The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people."
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"We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth."
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"Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible."
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"It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute."
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"The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted."
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"Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable."
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"When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured."
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"To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God."
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"Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields."
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"There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man."
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"He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet."
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"It would be unfair to expect other people to be as brilliant as oneself."
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"The royal throne of kings this scepter'd isle This earth of majesty this seat of Mars This other Eden demi-paradise This fortress built by nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war This happy breed of men this little world This precious stone set in the silver sea."
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"Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart."
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"The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic."
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"Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get."
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"Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor."
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"Next to coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one."
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"I'm armed with more than complete steel, - The justice of my quarrel."
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"Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position."
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"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one."
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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."
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