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Small: This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last
Oscar Wilde
"This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers
Oscar Wilde
"When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: There is always something infinitely mean about other peoples tragedies
Oscar Wilde
"There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates
Oscar Wilde
"The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit
Oscar Wilde
"Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: Ordinary riches can be stolen real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be t
Oscar Wilde
"Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: No man is rich enough to buy back his past
Oscar Wilde
"No man is rich enough to buy back his past"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike
Oscar Wilde
"Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: It is always the unreadable that occurs
Oscar Wilde
"It is always the unreadable that occurs"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all
Oscar Wilde
"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tra
Oscar Wilde
"I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everythin
Oscar Wilde
"I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train
Oscar Wilde
"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes
Oscar Wilde
"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: Biography lends to death a new terror
Oscar Wilde
"Biography lends to death a new terror"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there
Oscar Wilde
"Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds
Oscar Wilde
"Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament
Oscar Wilde
"A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: Its easier to replace a dead man than a good picture
George Bernard Shaw
"It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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Small: We dont stop playing because we grow old we grow old because we stop playing
George Bernard Shaw
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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Small: Hell is full of musical amateurs
George Bernard Shaw
"Hell is full of musical amateurs"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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Small: The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier
George Bernard Shaw
"The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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Small: Syllables govern the world
George Bernard Shaw
"Syllables govern the world"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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Small: Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the
George Bernard Shaw
"Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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Small: I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while
George Bernard Shaw
"I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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Small: Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid
George Bernard Shaw
"Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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Small: Assassination is the extreme form of censorship
George Bernard Shaw
"Assassination is the extreme form of censorship"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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Small: A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul
George Bernard Shaw
"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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Small: A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out
George Bernard Shaw
"A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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Small: All great truths begin as blasphemies
George Bernard Shaw
"All great truths begin as blasphemies"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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Small: A man never tells you anything until you contradict him
George Bernard Shaw
"A man never tells you anything until you contradict him"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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Small: Theres no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
"There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature"
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright
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Small: The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
"The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency"
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright
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Small: Its safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
"Its safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion"
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright
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Small: I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is f
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
"I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere"
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright
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Small: Words are but wind and learning is nothing but words ergo, learning is nothing but wind
Jonathan Swift
"Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind"
Jonathan Swift, Writer
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Small: One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good
Jonathan Swift
"One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good"
Jonathan Swift, Writer
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Small: There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being
James Joyce
"There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being"
James Joyce, Novelist
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Small: My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions
James Joyce
"My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions"
James Joyce, Novelist
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Small: I think a child should be allowed to take his fathers or mothers name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a
James Joyce
"I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction"
James Joyce, Novelist
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