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By heaven, I do love, and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be melancholy.

William Shakespeare

Love's Labour's Lost

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Shakespeare, William. Love's Labour's Lost. 1597, England, UK, act 4, sc. 3.

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Shakespeare, William. "Love's Labour's Lost." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 3.

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The desire to create is one of the strongest urges a human spirit can contain. It will always break through.

Tennessee Williams

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Williams, Tennessee. "Tennessee Williams: Past and Present." Interviewed by Charles Ruas and Bill Lentch, WBAI-FM New York, 12 Dec. 1975.

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Where wealth and freedom reign, contentment fails,
And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

Oliver Goldsmith

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Goldsmith, Oliver. The Traveller; or, a Prospect of Society. London: John Newbery, 1764.

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is of slight worth, as all life is a dream, and dreams are dreams.

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Life is a Dream

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Calderón de la Barca, Pedro. La vida es sueño [Life Is a Dream]. 1635, Madrid, Spain, act 2.

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Calderón de la Barca, Pedro. Life is a Dream. Penguin Classics, 2006, act 2.

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When the sun sets, shadows, that showed at noon
But small, appear most long and terrible.

Nathaniel Lee

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Lee, Nathaniel and John Dryden. Oedipus: A Tragedy. London: R. Bentley and M. Magnes, 1679, act 4, sc. 1.

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Faint heart never won fair lady!
Nothing venture, nothing win-
Blood is thick, but water's thin-
In for a penny, in for a pound-
It's Love that makes the world go round!

W.S. Gilbert

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Gilbert, William Schwenck. Iolanthe; or, The Peer and the Peri. Composed by Arthur Sullivan. 1882, Savoy Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2.

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You know very well that love is, above all, the gift of oneself!

Jean Anouilh

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Anouilh, Jean. Ardèle ou la Marguerite. Directed by Roland Piétri. 1948, Comédie des Champs-Élysées, Paris, France.

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Anouilh, Jean. "Ardele." Jean Anouilh: Five Plays. Vol. 2, Hill & Wang, 1966.

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What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why,
I have forgotten, and what arms have lain
Under my head till morning

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Millay, Edna St. Vincent. "What Lips My Lips Have Kissed." The Harp-Weaver, and Other Poems. Harper & Brothers, 1923, I. 1.

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Delightful task! to rear the tender thought,
To teach the young idea how to shoot.

James Thomson

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Thomson, James. Spring. London: Andrew Millar, 1728.

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Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was made.

Robert Browning

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Browning, Robert. "Rabbi Ben Ezra." Dramatis Personae. London: Chapman & Hall, 1864, I. 1.

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Browning, Robert. "Rabbi Ben Ezra." Robert Browning: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 1.

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Tempt not a desp'rate man.

William Shakespeare

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Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. London: John Danter, 1597, act 5, sc. 3.

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Shakespeare, William. "Romeo and Juliet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 5, sc. 3.

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Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?

Bertolt Brecht

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Brecht, Bertolt. "Die Lösung [The Solution]." Die Welt, 1959.

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The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; thats the essence of inhumanity.

George Bernard Shaw

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Shaw, George Bernard. The Devil's Disciple. 4 Oct. 1897, Fifth Avenue Theatre, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA, act 2.

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Shaw, George Bernard. "The Devil's Disciple." Arms and the Man, the Devil's Disciple, and Caesar and Cleopatra. Oxford UP, 2021, act 2.

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Our greatest glory is, not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Oliver Goldsmith

The Citizen of the World

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Goldsmith, Oliver. "Letter VII." The Citizen of the World; or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher. Dublin: George and Alex. Ewing, 1762. Originally published in The Public Ledger, Jan. 1760 - Aug. 1761.

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If thou wilt ease thine heart
Of lover and all its smart
Then sleep, dear, sleep.

Thomas Lovell Beddoes

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Beddoes, Thomas Lovell. Death's Jest-book; Or, The Fool's Tragedy. London: William Pickering, 1850.

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Beddoes, Thomas Lovell. Death's Jest Book. Routledge, 2020.

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Women are like tricks by sleight of hand,
Which, to admire, we should not understand.

William Congreve

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Congreve, William. Love for Love. 30 Apr. 1695, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, England, UK, act 4, sc. 21.

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Congreve, William. "Love for Love." The Way of the World and Other Plays, edited by Eric S. Rump. Penguin Classics, 2006, act 4, sc. 21.

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Trust not him that hath once broken faith.

William Shakespeare

Henry VI, Part 3

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Shakespeare, William. Henry the Sixth, Part 3. London: Thomas Millington, 1595, act 4, sc. 4.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Third Part of Henry the Sixth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 4.

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The car, the furniture, the wife, the children-everything has to be disposable. Because you see the main thing today is-shopping.

Arthur Miller

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The Price

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Miller, Arthur. The Price. 7 Feb. 1968, Morosco Theatre, New York City, NY, USA, act 1.

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I know I am but summer to your heart,
And not the full four seasons of the year.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Millay, Edna St. Vincent. "I Know I Am But Summer." The Harp-Weaver, and Other Poems. Harper & Brothers, 1923, I. 1.

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I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.