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Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. Elizabeth Bowen
Jealousy Alone Enemies Feeling More Smiling Than Against
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. George Bernard Shaw
Silence Perfect Most Scorn Expression
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. Oscar Wilde
Love Friendship Relationship Women Passion Men Men And Women Worship Possible Between Enmity
A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady. Thomas Moore
Love Friendship Love Is Steady Like Warm
No man is rich enough to buy back his past. Oscar Wilde
Buy Man Past Rich Enough Back His
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion. Edmund Burke
You Judgment Owes Betrays Only Sacrifices He Instead Industry Opinion His Representative Your Serving
The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react. George Bernard Shaw
Numerous Once Possibilities React Decide Act
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. George Bernard Shaw
History Man Learning Experience History Repeats Itself Must Always How Repeats Itself Unexpected Happens Incapable
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. George Bernard Shaw
Democracy Better Shall Device Governed Than Deserve
Who, being loved, is poor? Oscar Wilde
Love Being Loved Poor Who
No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone. Oscar Wilde
Love Art Nature Better Bird Will Beauty Field Every Flower Way Wing Sees Throw Better Way Learn Understand Becomes Boy Than Stone Wood Transferred Which Canvas To Love Who Thing
Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame! William Butler Yeats
Me You Ride World Dance Wind Mountains Flame Out Would Take Come Like Fairies Dull
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. C. S. Lewis
Truth Art You Man Be Original Try Will Become Before Nine Caring Out Tell Has-Been About Ten Having Bothers Simply Without How Been Times Often Whereas Literature Noticed Who Original Even Originality Ever
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. Oscar Wilde
Friendship Best Ending Laughter Beginning Bad Far
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. Oscar Wilde
Good Advice Oneself Only Never Pass Any The Only Thing Good Advice Use Thing
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government. Edmund Burke
Government Nothing Unjust Out Feeble Oppressive Turns
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more. Oscar Wilde
Progress Ambition Our Rule Ourselves Kingdom More True Know Us Should Each Each One
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. Oscar Wilde
Country Only Only Country Civilization Between Without Decadence America In-Between Barbarism
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest. C. S. Lewis
War You People Obey Will Rest Our Say Claim Telling People Say Instinct Instincts Like Listen Expense Different Us Each Different Things Gratified Things
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. Jonathan Swift
Legal Laws Small Through Catch Like May Break Which Flies Cobweb Wasps
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. Oscar Wilde
Attitude People Morality Adopt Simply Towards Dislike Personally Whom
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. Oscar Wilde
Failure Ambition Refuge Last
When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you'd been the only man in the world. C. S. Lewis
You Man World Christ Only He Individually Been Died Just Just As Much Much
What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God. C. S. Lewis
Education God Nature You Natural Fears Meeting Ancestors Some Something My Self Various Self Mainly Come Devils Perhaps Call Forces Were Person Intended Place Which Really Now Lives Hardly Desires
The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. C. S. Lewis
Hell Slope Signposts Road Underfoot Safest Gentle Without Gradual Hell Is Milestones Sudden Soft
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. Edmund Burke
Me Justice Legal Humanity Lawyer Ought Tell Tells May Reason
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