"Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword."
-Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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"He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.“
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"To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief."
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"Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics."
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"I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere."
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"I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
-Marilyn Monroe
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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
-Robert Frost
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"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination."
-Albert Einstein
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"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."
-Dr. Seuss
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"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
-Jorge Luis Borges
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"A lady's imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
-Jane Austen
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"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night."
-Edgar Allan Poe
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"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
-Sylvia Plath
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