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Quotes by Dramatist
"A great devotee of the gospel of getting on."
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"There are more things in heaven and earth...than are dreamt of by your philosophy."
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"How can she? She's incapable of understanding anything. Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?"
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"There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them."
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"If an imaginative boy has a sufficiently rich mother who has intelligence, personal grace, dignity of character without harshness, and a cultivated sense of the best art of her time to enable her to make her house beautiful, she sets a standard for him against which very few women can struggle, besides effecting for him a disengagement of his affections, his sense of beauty, and his idealism from his specifically sexual impulses."
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"The reason why the continental European is, to the Englishman or American, so surprisingly ignorant of the Bible, is that the authorized English version is a great work of literary art, and the continental versions are comparatively artless."
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"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."
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"You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well-hammered yourself."
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"There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness, and waked herself with laughing."
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"Adversity's sweet milk philosophy."
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"Brutus: Kneel not, gentle Portia.Portia: I should need not, if you were gentle Brutus. Within the bond of marriage, tell me, Brutus, Is it excepted I should know no secrets That appertain to you? Am I yourself But, as it were, in sort or limitation, To keep with you at meals, comfort your bed, And talk to you sometimes? Dwell I but in the suburbs Of your good pleasure? If it be no more, Portia is Brutus' harlot, not his wife."
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"When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work."
Work,
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"There was something tragic in a friendship so colored by romance."
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"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself."
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"Most people are boring and stupid."
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