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How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? William Shakespeare
Patience Wound Degrees Heal How Did Poor Ever
Suit the action to the word, the word to the action. William Shakespeare
Word Action Suit
I'm an Afro-realist. I take what comes, and I do my best to affect what is unacceptable in society. Wole Soyinka
Best Society Unacceptable Take Affect
The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor. Zora Neale Hurston
Great Nature Man Honor Always Held Who
It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say. Zora Neale Hurston
You People Unless Say Talking Understand Use
Gods always behave like the people who make them. Zora Neale Hurston
People Like Make Always Behave Gods Them Who
I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest. Alexandre Dumas
Sometimes Rest Imbeciles Take Because Rogues Prefer
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other. Anton Chekhov
Tired Wife Medicine Other Spend Lawful Mistress Get Literature Medical Night
Only entropy comes easy. Anton Chekhov
Easy Only Entropy
Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. Anton Chekhov
You Doctors Too Only Lawyers Only Difference Merely Rob Same Difference Whereas
No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith. Anton Chekhov
Faith People Matter Year Unfair Unjust Else State Extreme Characterized Embittered Corrupt More More Than Anything He Over Him Fairness How Than Lack May Anything Anything Else Placed Loves Convict
There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him. Antonin Artaud
Life People Genius Every Solution Madman Only Delirium Had Head Idea Him Misunderstood His Shining Frightened Prepared Whom Whose
That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library. Aphra Behn
Life Good Library Faithful Perfect Retreat Friend Tranquillity Which Found Nowhere
Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields. Christopher Marlowe
Love Me Will Live Valleys Pleasures Come Hills Prove Mountain Yields Romantic Woods Fields
You get rich through luck. You get rich through crime. You get rich through fulfilling the needs of another. You can be as greedy as you like. If you can't do one of those three things, you ain't going to get any money. David Mamet
Needs You Money Crime Three Greedy Rich Luck Those Through Like Another Get Any Going Fulfilling Things
Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve. Edward Albee
Time Democracy Remember One Thing Exactly Exactly What About Always End Up Same Same Time Want Anything Deserve Thing
There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair. Friedrich Schiller
Love Happy Cottage Smallest Loving Room Pair
If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters. George Bernard Shaw
You People Will Other Corner Rush Head Smallest Opinions Leave Quarters Your Moment Vacant
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it. George Bernard Shaw
Life Heart Other Contains Tragedies Get Your Desire Two
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy. George Bernard Shaw
Best Honesty Honesty Is World Before Honestly Our Say Must Make Policy Am The Best Policy Afraid Children Honest
Every man over forty is a scoundrel. George Bernard Shaw
Man Age Every Over Scoundrel Forty Every Man
Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends. George Bernard Shaw
Food Animals Eat Friends
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. George Bernard Shaw
Time Matter Poverty Rich Society Questions Social Poor Your Waste
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads. George Bernard Shaw
Logical Censorship Books Completeness Except Allowed Nobody Read Reads Any Ends
There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. Jean Giraudoux
Truth Nature Law Better Poet Lawyer Imagination Way Better Way Study Freely Exercising Than Ever Interpreted
If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be. John Heywood
You Happy Experience Remember Will Every Latent Circumstances Some Seem Troubles Develops Adverse Force Call Within However May Experiences Your Vigorous Grow
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