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- When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory.
- Pierre Corneille (1606 - 1684), Le Cid (1637)
- Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses. - Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "News Item"
- We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman,—scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.
- Colley Cibber (1671 - 1757), Love's Last Shift, Act 2
- Possession is eleven points in the law.
- Colley Cibber (1671 - 1757), Woman's Wit, Act 1
- God is really only another artist, he made the elephant, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas.
- Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
- Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught.
- Henry James (1843 - 1916), "The Ambassadors", Book Fourth, Chapter 2
- Avarice, envy, pride,
Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all On Fire. - Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321), The Divine Comedy
- The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! - William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850), The World is Too Much With Us
- It's not how much we give, but how much love we put into giving.
- Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
- A little learning is a dangerous thing;
drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again. - Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744), An essay on Criticism
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