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Small: Be yourself everyone else is already taken
Oscar Wilde
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect
Oscar Wilde
"To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes
Oscar Wilde
"Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowi
Oscar Wilde
"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: Why was I born with such contemporaries?
Oscar Wilde
"Why was I born with such contemporaries?"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose
Oscar Wilde
"There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious
Oscar Wilde
"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly norm
Oscar Wilde
"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him
Oscar Wilde
"An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: Ambition is the last refuge of the failure
Oscar Wilde
"Ambition is the last refuge of the failure"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody
George Bernard Shaw
"Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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Small: Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything
George Bernard Shaw
"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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Small: The liars punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else
George Bernard Shaw
"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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Small: What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually ac
George Bernard Shaw
"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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Small: Old men are dangerous: it doesnt matter to them what is going to happen to the world
George Bernard Shaw
"Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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Small: It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid
George Bernard Shaw
"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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Small: England and America are two countries separated by the same language
George Bernard Shaw
"England and America are two countries separated by the same language"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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Small: An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable
George Bernard Shaw
"An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
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Small: It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom
Jonathan Swift
"It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom"
Jonathan Swift, Writer
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Small: I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some pre
James Joyce
"I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day"
James Joyce, Novelist
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Small: No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found
"No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found"
Samuel Beckett, Playwright
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Small: All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions
"All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions"
William Butler Yeats, Poet
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Small: Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in
Brendan Behan
"Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in"
Brendan Behan, Dramatist
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Small: And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touchd by the thorns
Thomas Moore
"And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns"
Thomas Moore, Poet
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Small: Money cant buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery
"Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery"
Spike Milligan, Comedian
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Small: In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no al
"In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic"
Gerry Adams, Politician
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Small: Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell
"Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell"
George A. Moore, Novelist
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Small: A laugh is a terrible weapon
"A laugh is a terrible weapon"
Kate O'Brien, Novelist
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Small: How can I be in two places at once, unless I were a bird?
Boyle Roche
"How can I be in two places at once, unless I were a bird?"
Boyle Roche, Politician
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Small: Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant uni
"Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family and the locality. The idea was that the whole world would grow out from that small space"
John McGahern, Writer
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Small: Woman begins by resisting a mans advances and ends by blocking his retreat
Oscar Wilde
"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: The basis of optimism is sheer terror
Oscar Wilde
"The basis of optimism is sheer terror"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating
Oscar Wilde
"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation
Oscar Wilde
"One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: Women are made to be loved, not understood
Oscar Wilde
"Women are made to be loved, not understood"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up
Oscar Wilde
"There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable
Oscar Wilde
"Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative
Oscar Wilde
"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune to lose both looks like carelessness
Oscar Wilde
"To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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Small: Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us
Oscar Wilde
"Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
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