The soul of this man is in his clothes.
Author: William Shakespeare
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I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
Author: William Shakespeare
Work: Hamlet", Act 3 scene 1
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The worst is not
So long as we can say, "This is the worst."
Author: William Shakespeare
Work: King Lear", Act 4 scene 1
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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Work: Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet (1911) "Limits to Toleration
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I will make a Star-chamber matter of it.
Author: William Shakespeare
Work: The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 1
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Work: The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Work: The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.
Author: J. R. R. Tolkien
Work: The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954
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Stranger in a strange country.
Author: Sophocles
Work: Oedipus at Colonus
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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Work: The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Work: Pygmalion (1916) preface
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His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.
Author: J. R. R. Tolkien
Work: The Hobbit
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One Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all
and in the darkness bind them.
Author: J. R. R. Tolkien
Work: The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954, chapter 2
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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Work: Man and Superman (1903) act 3
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