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Quotes by Dramatist
"No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another."
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"The material world coexists alongside the ideal life, and the purest intentions are bound to the earth by ridiculous threads, but they are threads of iron and they are not easily broken."
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"Dear little Swallow,' said the Prince, 'you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery."
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"They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death."
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"Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience."
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"If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience."
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"Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world but you must get at a man through his own religion not through yours."
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"Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying."
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"In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes, another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free."
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"Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle."
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"The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils."
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"The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people."
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"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."
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"He reads much;He is a great observer and he looksQuite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays,As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music;Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sortAs if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spiritThat could be moved to smile at any thing.Such men as he be never at heart's easeWhiles they behold a greater than themselves,And therefore are they very dangerous."
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"True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it."
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"Our laws make law impossible our liberties destroy all freedom our property is organized robbery our morality an impudent hypocrisy our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes our power wielded by cowards and weaklings and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons."
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"When things don't change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them."
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"I need not repeat familiar arguments about the waste of teachers' time, and the difficulties thrown in the way of English children trying to learn their own language; or the fact that nobody without a visual memory for words ever succeeds in spelling conventionally, however highly educated he or she may be."
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"To him, man was a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex multiform creature that bore within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh was tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead."
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"Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart."
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"I am not gamesome: I do lack some partof that quick spirit that is in Antony."
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"We are entitled to violate history, provided that it results in handsome offspring."
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"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
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"Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart."
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"The mimicry of passion is the most intolerable of all poses."
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"While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw."He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw."
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"Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run."
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"Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."
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"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
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"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
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