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"Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something."
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Anton Chekhov
"Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something."
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"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
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William Shakespeare
"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
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"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools."
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William Shakespeare
"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools."
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"It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics."
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George Bernard Shaw
"It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics."
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"I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."
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Brendan Behan
"I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."
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"Fame is a constant effort."
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Jules Renard
"Fame is a constant effort."
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"I might call him. A thing divine, for nothing natural. I ever saw so noble."
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William Shakespeare
"I might call him. A thing divine, for nothing natural. I ever saw so noble."
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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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George Bernard Shaw
"Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt."
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"The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves."
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George Bernard Shaw
"The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves."
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"I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights."
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Harold Pinter
"I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights."
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"Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it."
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William Wycherley
"Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it."
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"Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite."
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Edward Albee
"Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite."
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"Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton."
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Wilson Mizner
"Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton."
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"In this world truth can wait; she is used to it."
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Douglas William Jerrold
"In this world truth can wait; she is used to it."
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"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
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Oscar Wilde
"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
Man,
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"In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience."
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Oscar Wilde
"In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience."
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"Appearance rules the world."
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Friedrich Schiller
"Appearance rules the world."
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"Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope."
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John Ciardi
"Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope."
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"Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day."
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William Shakespeare
"Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day."
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"It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so."
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Friedrich Schiller
"It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so."
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"Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air."
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Friedrich Schiller
"Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air."
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"Look, he's winding up the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike."
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William Shakespeare
"Look, he's winding up the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike."
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"I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'"
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Wilson Mizner
"I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'"
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"The sea has neither meaning nor pity."
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Anton Chekhov
"The sea has neither meaning nor pity."
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"O what a heaven is love! O what a hell!"
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Thomas Dekker
"O what a heaven is love! O what a hell!"
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"Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?"
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Alan Bennett
"Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?"
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"When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory."
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Pierre Corneille
"When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory."
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"Mine honor is my life; both grow in one.Take honor from me, and my life is done."
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William Shakespeare
"Mine honor is my life; both grow in one.Take honor from me, and my life is done."
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"A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings."
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Jules Renard
"A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings."
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"Some grief shows much of love,But much of grief shows still some want of wit."
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William Shakespeare
"Some grief shows much of love,But much of grief shows still some want of wit."
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"Great men may jest with saints 'tis wit in them But in the less foul profanation."
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William Shakespeare
"Great men may jest with saints 'tis wit in them But in the less foul profanation."
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"A sad tale's best for winter: I have one of sprites and goblins."
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William Shakespeare
"A sad tale's best for winter: I have one of sprites and goblins."
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"To save all we must risk all."
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Friedrich Schiller
"To save all we must risk all."
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"Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable."
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Anton Chekhov
"Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable."
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"Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us."
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Thomas Otway
"Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us."
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"If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters."
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George Bernard Shaw
"If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters."
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"O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!"
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William Shakespeare
"O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!"
God,
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"Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise."
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William Shakespeare
"Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise."
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"A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does NOT triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him."
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George Bernard Shaw
"A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does NOT triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him."
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"How delicious is pleasure after torment!"
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Pierre Corneille
"How delicious is pleasure after torment!"
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"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."
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George Bernard Shaw
"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."
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"I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own."
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Wilson Mizner
"I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own."
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"I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate."
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Arthur W. Pinero
"I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate."
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"There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else."
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Oscar Wilde
"There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else."
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"What do I fear? Myself? There's none else by.Richard loves Richard; that is, I and I."
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William Shakespeare
"What do I fear? Myself? There's none else by.Richard loves Richard; that is, I and I."
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"To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune but to write and read comes by nature."
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William Shakespeare
"To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune but to write and read comes by nature."
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"The cunning livery of hell."
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William Shakespeare
"The cunning livery of hell."
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"Can snore upon the flint when resty sloth Finds the down pillow hard."
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William Shakespeare
"Can snore upon the flint when resty sloth Finds the down pillow hard."
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"The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt."
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John Heywood
"The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt."
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"Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself."
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Oscar Wilde
"Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself."
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