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Quotes by Dramatist
"Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity."
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"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."
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"I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it."
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"Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn."
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"Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."
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"It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one."
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"When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."
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"No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect."
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"The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Therefore, love moderately."
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"Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds."
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"A woman's best protection is a little money of her own."
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"More of your conversation would infect my brain."
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"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
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"Suit the action to the word, the word to the action."
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"Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt."
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"The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world."
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"Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone; He, just as you, Would toy and woo, He would chirp and flatter me, He would hang the wing awhile, Till at length he saw me smile, Lord! how sullen he would be!"
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"The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks."
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"In this world truth can wait; she is used to it."
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"Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends."
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"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."
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"Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood."
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"It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say."
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"The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you."
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"I am not young enough to know everything."
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"It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly."
Ugly,
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