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Nothing leads to good that is not natural. Friedrich Schiller
Good Natural Nothing Leads
It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in. Friedrich Schiller
Work Creative Mind Pour Too Ideas Hinders Intellect Closely Creative Work
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. George Bernard Shaw
You Happy Miserable Enough Way Only Wonder Being Leisure Whether Avoid
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men. George Bernard Shaw
Vote Women Men Long Clever Willing Attractive Govern Want
If you're not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can't be of very much use to yourself. George Bernard Shaw
Life You Yourself Organization Big Society Benefit Our Alive We Cannot More Purpose Consume Clearly Perhaps Because Does Very Cannot Little Then Us Much Producing Use Your Keeping
Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid. George Bernard Shaw
Animals Thoroughly Only Am Human Afraid Human Beings Which Beings
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. George Bernard Shaw
Man Mind Men One-Man Ten Beat Knows Always Who
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. George Bernard Shaw
Work Failure Young Nine Out Ten More Ten Times Observed Failures Were Times Did Things
Hell is full of musical amateurs. George Bernard Shaw
Music Hell Musical Amateur Hell Is Full
The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong. George Bernard Shaw
Sometimes Minority Wrong Majority Always Right
My reputation grows with every failure. George Bernard Shaw
Failure Reputation Every Grows
All genuinely intellectual work is humorous. George Bernard Shaw
Work Humorous Genuinely Intellectual
Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice. Harold Pinter
Theatre Political Problems Own Disposition Air Characters Must Cost Entirely Objectivity Allowed His Author Taste Essential Confine Different Cannot Them Breathe Prejudice Avoided Satisfy Set Presents
Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong. Harold Pinter
Sense Wrong Equally How Proved Role Quite Often Should Compelling Played
A thing well done is worth doing. Hugh Leonard
Worth Well Well Done Doing Done Thing
There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man. Jean Giraudoux
Man Heart Brainy Diverse Joined Cannot Elements
On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least. Jean Racine
Worries Throne Weighs Remorse Least Many
The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself. John Ciardi
Constitution Fool Every Damn Gives Make Himself American Inalienable Inalienable Right Right Every American
The coward's weapon, poison. John Fletcher
Coward Poison Weapon
Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness. John Heywood
Those Admire May Us Who Agree Right
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt. John Heywood
Man Happy Wealth Dirt Without Loss Shirt Times Assert
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. Jules Renard
God Better Reputation Would Would-Be He Know His Exists
Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels. Lillian Hellman
Truth Time You Made Does Scoundrels Traitor Often
Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice? Lillian Hellman
Injustice People Since Them Agree Defend
In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth. Oscar Wilde
Work Crazy Man Disappointment Science Wealth Invention Poverty Too Honoured Inventor Road Almost Exercise America Ends Regarded Shortest Ingenuity Forthcoming Help England Many Application
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive. Oscar Wilde
Man Marriage Cigarettes Ruins More How Demoralizing Expensive Far
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