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Oscar Wilde
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
I don’t mind plain women being Puritans. It is the
Oscar Wilde
Ralph Waldo Emerson
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularit
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Joseph Brodsky
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
When the eye fails to find beauty—alias solace-—it
Joseph Brodsky
Voltaire
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
To succeed in chaining the multitude you must seem
Voltaire
Rabindranath Tagore
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
The tyrant claims freedom to lull freedom / and ye
Rabindranath Tagore
Herman Melville
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
Beware the People weeping / When they bare the iro
Herman Melville
James Russell Lowell
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
Tyrants are but the spawn of Ignorance, / Begotten
James Russell Lowell
Abraham Lincoln
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
When the white man governs himself, that is self-
Abraham Lincoln