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Quotes by Dramatist
"Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy."
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"The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic."
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"Il y a les sachants et les savants : c'est la mémoire qui fait les uns, c'est la philosophie qui fait les autres. La philosophie ne s'apprend pas ; la philosophie est la réunion des sciences acquises au génie qui les applique."
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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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"HIGGINS. The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another."
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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."
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"Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious."
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"A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic."
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"I hope, Cecily, I shall not offend you if I state quite frankly and openly that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection."
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"So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts."
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"The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is."
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"Friendship throws out deep roots in honest hearts, D'Artagnan. Believe me, it is only the evil-minded who deny friendship; they cannot understand it."
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"The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them but to be indifferent to them that's the essence of inhumanity."
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"If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all."
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"Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather."
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"From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life,Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Doth with their death bury their parents' strife. . . . O, I am fortune's fool! . . . Then I defy you, stars."
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"That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste."
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"Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability."
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"To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity."
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"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it."
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"The shadow of my sorrow. Let's see, 'tis very true. My griefs lie all within and these external manners of laments are mere shadows to the unseen grief which swells with silence in the tortured soul.There lies the substance."
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