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Quotes by Dramatist
"The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead."
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"I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine."
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"Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered."
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"To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked."
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"In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it."
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"There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People."
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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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"He that is thy friend indeed,He will help thee in thy need:If thou sorrow, he will weep;If thou wake, he cannot sleep:Thus of every grief in heartHe with thee doth bear a part.These are certain signs to knowFaithful friend from flattering foe."
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"Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other."
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"I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale."
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"He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others."
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"Every why hath a wherefore."
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"I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace."
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"A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant."
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"It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so."
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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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"The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming."
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"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
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