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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

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Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.

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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

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The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.

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Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.

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I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

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Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.

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Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Dramatist

Born: October 16th, 1854

Died: November 30th, 1900

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