25 Inspiring George Bernard Shaw Quotes

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics.He  is the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize in Literature (1925) and an Oscar (1938), for his contributions to literature and for his work on the film Pygmalion (adaptation of his play of the same name), respectively.

His plays include Man and Superman,Caesar and Cleopatra (1901),Androcles and the Lion (1912) and more.

George Bernard Shaw Quotes

1. Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
   
   
2. Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
   
   
3. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
   
   
4. The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
   
   
5. It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.
   
   
6. All great truths begin as blasphemies.
   
   
7. A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
   
   
8. We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
   
   
9. When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
   
   
10. The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
    
    
11. In this world, there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
    
    
12. If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
    
    
13. Don't try to live forever. You will not succeed.
    
    
14. The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
    
    
15. My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.
    
    
16. We are made wise not by recollection of our past but by responsibility for our future.
    
    
17. A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
    
    
18. 

    I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead; ahead of myself as well as you.
    
    
19. The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
    
    
20. We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing!
    
    
21. Happiness and beauty are by-products.
    
    
22. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
    
    
23. You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'
    
    
24. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
    
    
25. The reason for this, it seems is that a protein rich meal helps to better stabilize your blood sugar levels and therefore providing our body and brains with a steady source of fuel High carbohydrate meals on the other hand cause large increases and then rapid decreases in blood glucose and mental energy.

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10 Most Popular Quotes of Buddha

Siddhartha Gautama Buddha(563 B.C.) was born in a royal family and later in his life,he got enlightenment under a bodhi(peepal) tree and turned as a spiritual teacher.He was the founder of Buddhism.

 Parents - King Shuddhodana(King of Kapilvastu) and Queen MahaMaya

 Birth Place - Lumbini(Nepal)

Enlightened Place - Bodh Gaya (Bihar,India)

 "Buddha" meaning "awakened one" or "the enlightened one."

The Buddha

10 Most Popular Quotes of Buddha


1.“A jug fills drop by drop.”

2. “An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”

3. “All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.”

4. “A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.”

5. “Let them not do the slightest thing that the wise would later reprove.”

6.“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”

7. “There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.”

8. “The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.”

9. “Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations.”

10.“In separateness lies the world’s great misery, in compassion lies the world’s true strength.”

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10 Best Time Quotes

Time is success,time is life,time is love,time is everything.Time is the best teacher.Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

10 Best Time Quotes(Persistence and Success)

 Time

1.It Takes Persistence to Reach a Goal.Wherever you are,Be there totally."

2.Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

3.Persistence means taking pains to overcome every obstacle, to do all that's necessary to reach your goal.


4.“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
 - Harriet Beecher Stowe 


5."Success in anything seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit. They hang on after others have let go."

6.The only people who never fail are those who never try. -  Chase, Ilka.

 7."All Great Achievements Require Time" - Maya Angelou



8.“History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeat.”
B. C. Forbes

9.“In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins – not through strength, but through persistence.”
Buddha

10.“Full effort is full victory.”
Mahatma Gandhi

11.“Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it!”
Winston Churchill

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Success is Simple

What is Success?

Success is accomplishing our goals and aims.Success is the virtual doorway opened for all.Anyone can enter it with hard work and continuous efforts. 

Success

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7 Best Success Quotes


1.Jonathon Winters - I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

2.Arnold H. Glasgow Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.

3.We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

4.If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, it gives him virtues; if it wishes to make him esteemed, it gives him success.

5.Malcolm S Forbes - Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

6.As someone wise said, "To move ahead in life you need to believe in yourself..Have conviction in your beliefs and the confidence to execute the beliefs."

7.There is no greater pleasure than being successful,Everybody wants to achieve success in everything they do.It enhances our personality and builds our confidence,and we learn to keep giving our best in everything we do."

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10 Most Popular Life Quotes

What is Life?

Life has no definition..It is what we see ,what we think and what we do.For someone it is simple for others it is complex.

Most Popular Song

"Life Is A Highway"

Whooo umm yeah...
Life's like a road that you travel on
When there's one day here and the next day gone
Sometimes you bend, sometimes you stand
Sometimes you turn your back to the wind
There's a world outside ev'ry darkened door
Where blues won't haunt you anymore
Where brave are free and lovers soar
Come ride with me to the distant shore
We won't hesitate
To break down the garden gate
There's not much time left today


Life is a highway
I wanna ride it all night long
If you're going my way
I wanna drive it all night long

Through all these cities and all these towns
It's in my blood and it's all around
I love you now like I loved you then
This is the road and these are the hands
From Mozambique to those Memphis nights
The Khyber Pass to Vancouver's lights

Life 

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Knock me down get back up again
You're in my blood
I'm not a lonely man
There's no load I can't hold
Road so rough this I know
I'll be there when the light comes in
Just tell 'em we're survivors

Gimme gimme gimme gimme yeah

There was a distance between you and I (between you and I)
A misunderstanding once
But now we look it in the eye

Ooooo...Yeah!

There ain't no load that I can't hold
Road so rough this I know
I'll be there when the light comes in
Just tell 'em we're survivors


Life is a highway
I wanna ride it all night long
If you're going my way
I wanna drive it all night long

Gimme gimme gimme gimme yeah



10 Most Popular Life Quotes

1.Stephen Kaggwa - “Try and fail, but don't fail to try.”


2.Mary Anne Radmacher - “Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.”


3.You can't always get what you want. But if you try sometime you find. You get what you need.

 4.Dale Carnegie - Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.


5.Doing your best means never stop trying. - Helen Keller.


 6.Tom Hopkins -“I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed: and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I fail and keep trying.”


7.“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” Steve Jobs

8.“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” Bill Gates

9.“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it!” Jonathan Winters

10.“The only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing.” Socrates

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10 Best Life Quotes / Risk Quotes

Risk is the probability of an unwanted event which may or may not occur.Risk may be a danger or financial risk or any other type of hazard.Risk is the part of life which we have to face and overcome boldly with positive attitude.

10 Best Life Quotes / Risk Quotes

Risk! Risk Anything!

1.Denis Waitley - Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

2.Andre Gide - "Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."

3.T.S. Eliot -  Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

4.Paul Tillich -  He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

5.Andre Malraux  “Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.”

6.Jim Rohn -  You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go.

 Risk

7.It's a great experience to take risk as a challenge,And the greater feeling is to overcome the results of the risk taken.

8.If we take challenges in life,we will learn to win,So be a sport to experiment with situations in life and you will see how easily you can become a winner.

9.Jim Rohn - If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

10.Albert Einstein  - The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead. 

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7 Best Motivational Quotes

1.The time is always right to do what is right.
Martin Luther King

2."Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results." Brian Tracy.


3.The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulations of others.
-- Tyron Edwards

4."The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose."
- E.M. Gray

Motivation

5.Determine what's most important to you in life.Put them down on paper and in your heart.Do them daily.

6.Untrained hands in the use of tools destroy what they want to build.It takes skill to use tools to achieve the result desired,whether it's tearing down an old house or building a new one.

Skepticism is a tool serving both purposes.But it must be used by a trained mind,a mind capable of disciplined thinking.Discipline is remembering what you want.

7.People Don't Plan To Fail, They Fail To Plan

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Best Team Work Quotes

What is Team Work?

Team Work is a work performed by a group of members(team) with a common goal or vision.

TEAM 

T- Together 
E- Everyone
A- Achieves 
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Best Team Work Quotes

The nice thing about TEAM WORK is that you always have others on your side.

Coming together is beginning,keeping together is progress.Working together is Success.

Teamwork is the ability to direct individual accomplishments towards organisational objectives.It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon objectives.

"When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence,excellence becomes a reality".

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

Every team needs a hero, every hero needs a team.

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much”
― Helen Keller


“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”
― Phil Jackson

Team Work

In Organisations, home, everywhere team work is essential for miraculous achievements.


So be a part of a great team,contribute your potential,Give the best of what you have and you will see the results for yourself.

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20 Most Popular Time Quotes

Time is precious because it is irreversible.Time is a dimension in which events can be ordered from the past through the present into the future,and also the measure of durations of events and the intervals between them.

Time is success,time is life,time is love,time is everything.Time is the best teacher.Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Great Thoughts about Time

1.     Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.Laertius Diogenes

2.     Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.John Randolph

3.     Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose.Thomas Edison

4.     Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.Peter F. Drucker

5.     Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.Samuel Smiles

6.     Never let yesterday use up today.Richard H. Nelson

7.     The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something.Carl Sandburg

8.     Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.Art Buchwald

9.     Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.William Penn

10. Better three hours too soon, than one minute too late.William Shakespeare

11. Time is the wisest counselor of all.Pericles

Time

12. Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.Delmore Schwartz

13. "Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time."- Margaret Bonnano

14. "Regret for wasted time is more wasted time."- Mason Cooley

15. The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: “I did not have time.”Franklin Field

16. "Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time."- Denis Waitley

17. "A stone thrown at the right time is better than gold given at the wrong time."- Persian Proverb

18. Lost time is never found again. Benjamin Franklin

19. I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Richard II

20. Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon

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15 Inspirational quotes of Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda, born Narendra Nath Datta, was an Indian Hindu monk. He was a key figure in the introduction of Indian philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the western world and was credited with raising interfaith awareness, bringing Hinduism to the status of a major world religion in the late 19th century.

Born: January 12, 1863, Kolkata

Died: July 4, 1902, Belur Math

Quotes and Great Thoughts of Vivekananda

Arise! Awake! And stop not till the goal is reached.

1.Each work has to pass through these stages – ridicule, opposition,
and then acceptance.Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.

2.If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished—mountains can be crumbled into atoms.

3.All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

4. Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore make your own future.

5.It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light. First, believe in this world, that there is meaning behind everything. Everything in the world is good, is holy and beautiful. If you see something evil, think that you do not understand it in the right light. Throw the burden on yourselves!

6. Understanding human nature is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing it can we know God? It is also a fact that the knowledge of God is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing God can we understand human nature.

7. What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless.

8.The Christian is not to become a Hindu or a Buddhist, nor a Hindu or a Buddhist to become a Christian. But each must assimilate the spirit of the others and yet preserve his individuality and grow according to his own law of growth.

Vivekananda

9.I have neither father nor mother nor brothers nor sisters no friends no foes, nor home nor country - a traveller in the way of eternity - asking no other help seeking no other help but God.

10.If you want to have life, you have to die every moment for it. Life and death are only different expressions of the same thing looked at from different standpoints; they are the falling and the rising of the same wave, and the two form one whole.

11.Experience is the only teacher we have.

12.The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves.

13.See for the highest, aim at that highest, and you shall reach the highest.

14.Things are not bettered, but we are bettered, by making changes in them.

15.Hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more.

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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams and plays, and the circumstances of his imprisonment which was followed by his early death.

Wilde's parents were successful Dublin intellectuals. Their son became fluent in French and German early in life. At university Wilde read Greats; he proved himself to be an outstanding classicist, first at Dublin, then at Oxford. He became known for his involvement in the rising philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles. As a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities: he published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art", and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress, and glittering conversation, Wilde had become one of the most well-known personalities of his day.

Quotes and Thoughts of Oscar Wilde

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

What is beautiful is a joy for all seasons and a possession for all eternity.

I can resist everything except temptation itself.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

I am not young enough to know everything.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Always love your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read.

Duty is what one expects from others.

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about.

He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friends like him.

Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

Oscar Wilde

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

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29 Popular Quotes of Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was born on February the twelfth 1809, and became the 16th President of the United States on March the 4th 1861 at the age of 52, he died four years later on April the 15th 1865 at the age of 56.


Accomplishments of Abraham Lincoln
1. Abraham Lincoln made the decision to fight to prevent the nation from splitting apart.

2. Abraham Lincoln was an unfaltering commander in chief during the Civil War which preserved the United States as one nation.

3. Abraham Lincoln's foreign policy was successful in preventing other countries from intervening in America's Civil War.

4. Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation which began the process of freedom for America's slaves. The document also allowed black soldiers to fight for the Union.

5. Abraham Lincoln was a strong supporter of the Thirteenth Amendment that formally ended slavery in the United States.

6. Legislation Abraham Lincoln signed into law included the Homestead Act, the Morrill Act, the National Banking Act, and a bill that chartered the first transcontinental railroad.

7. Abraham Lincoln set an example of strong character, leadership, and honesty which succeeding presidents tried to emulate. Barack Obama stated during his campaign that he would look to Lincoln as a model.

Abraham Lincoln

8. Abraham Lincoln gave a series of great speeches before and during his presidency including the House Divided Speech, the Cooper Union Address, the First Inaugural Address, the Gettysburg Address, and the Second Inaugural Address.

9. Abraham Lincoln wrote a series of famous letters including the letters to Grace Bedell, Horace Greeley, Fanny McCullough, and Lydia Bixby.

10. Abraham Lincoln's quotes are among the most famous quotes in the world.

Quotes and Thoughts of Abraham Lincoln

1. Whatever you are be a good one.
2. Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
3. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
4. Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
5. You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
6. Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
7. Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
8. No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
9. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
10. It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
11. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
12. Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.
13. Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
14. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
15. Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.
16. Whatever you are, be a good one.
17. That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
18. Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
19. To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards out of men.
20. It is best not to swap horses while crossing the river.
21. I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
22. What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
23. Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
24. Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.
25. You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.
26. Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
27. Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
28. If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
29. When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that's my religion.

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Best Quotes of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon".

Shakespeare Quotes 

If music be the food of love, play on.

Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest.

To business that we love, we rise betime and go to't with delight.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

Modest doubt is the beacon of the wise.

Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

Cowards die many times before their death, the valiant never tastes death but once.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon then.

When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.

All the world is a stage and all of us are but players in the theatre of life.

Dreams are toys. Yet for this once, yea, superstitiously, I will be squared by this.

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

One may smile, and smile, and be a villian.

There's small choice in rotten apples.

Violent delights have violent ends.

All that glitters is not gold.

Brevity is the soul of wit. FT2P6NCKQKPB 

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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

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