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The Stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

Jonathan Swift

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Topic

Self-deprivation Asceticism Stoicism

Author

Jonathan Swift

Source

Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting

Medium

Essay

Genre

Satire

Language

English

Time

1711 1710s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Original Citation

Swift, Jonathan. "Various Thoughts, Moral and Diverting." Miscellanies in Prose and Verse. 1st ed, London: John Morphew, 1711.

Current Citation

Swift, Jonathan. "Thoughts on Various Subjects (1711)." Jonathan Swift: The Essential Writings, edited by Claude Rawson and Ian Higgins. W. W. Norton & Company, 2009.

The secret of success is to offend the greatest number of people.

George Bernard Shaw

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Topic

Success

Speaker

George Bernard Shaw

Source

Days with Bernard Shaw

Genre

Biography

Language

English

Time

1949 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Shaw, George Bernard. Quoted in Days with Bernard Shaw, written by Stephen Winsten. Vanguard Press, 1949.

The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes, and he annexes everything.

Oscar Wilde

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Topic

Borrowing and creativity Creativity

Author

Oscar Wilde

Source

Olivia at the Lyceum Dramatic Review

Language

English

Time

1885 1880s 19th century

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Citation

Wilde, Oscar. "Olivia at the Lyceum." Dramatic Review, 30 May 1885.

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

George Bernard Shaw

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Topic

Poverty

Author

George Bernard Shaw

Source

Major Barbara

Medium

Play

Genre

Drama (play)

Language

English

Time

1905 1900s 20th century

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Original Citation

Shaw, George Bernard. Major Barbara. 28 Nov. 1905, Court Theatre, London, England, UK, preface.

Current Citation

Shaw, George Bernard. Major Barbara. Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara. Oxford University Press, 2021, preface.

What a silly thing Love is!...It is not half as useful as Logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.

Oscar Wilde

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Topic

Nature of love Love

Author

Oscar Wilde

Source

The Nightingale and the Rose The Happy Prince and Other Stories

Medium

Short story

Language

English

Time

1888 1880s 19th century

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Original Citation

Wilde, Oscar. "The Nightingale and the Rose." The Happy Prince and Other Tales. London: Duckworth and Co., 1888.

Current Citation

Wilde, Oscar. "The Nightingale and the Rose." Oscar Wilde: Complete Short Fiction, edited by Ian Small. Penguin Classics, 2003.

Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.

George Bernard Shaw

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Topic

Women Men and women

Speaker

Undershaft

Author

George Bernard Shaw

Source

Major Barbara

Medium

Play

Genre

Drama (play)

Language

English

Time

1905 1900s 20th century

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Original Citation

Shaw, George Bernard. Major Barbara. 28 Nov. 1905, Court Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3.

Current Citation

Shaw, George Bernard. Major Barbara. Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara. Oxford University Press, 2021, act 3.

I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

On Napoleon.

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Topic

Military strategy Great man theory of history

Speaker

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

Language

English

Time

1831 1830s 19th century

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Citation

Wellesley, Arthur. Spoken during a conversion with Philip Henry Stanhope. 2 Nov. 1831, England, UK.