"The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them" — Moliere

When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something

Source: Bishop Blougram's Apology (1855)

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise

Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793)

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all

Source: Miscellaneous Aphorisms (1911)

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on

Source: In a Balcony (1855)

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known

Source: The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese

Source: Alarms and Discursions, Cheese (1910)

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