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rama9agg
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quotes-sentiment-dataset

QUOTE stringlengths 12 505	AUTHOR stringlengths 3 32	GENRE stringclasses 117 values	category stringclasses 4 values	sentiment stringclasses 2 values
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.	Mark Twain	age	sarcastic	negative
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.	Henry Ford	age	sarcastic	negative
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.	Mark Twain	age	sarcastic	negative
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.	Kurt Vonnegut	age	sarcastic	negative
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.	Robert Frost	age	sarcastic	negative
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.	Andrew Carnegie	age	sarcastic	negative
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.	C. S. Lewis	age	sarcastic	negative
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.	Confucius	age	sarcastic	negative
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.	Eleanor Roosevelt	age	sarcastic	negative
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.	Samuel Ullman	age	sarcastic	negative
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.	Agatha Christie	age	sarcastic	negative
All diseases run into one, old age.	Ralph Waldo Emerson	age	sarcastic	negative
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.	Aristotle	age	sarcastic	negative
Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.	Bill Cosby	age	sarcastic	negative
Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.	Francis Bacon	age	sarcastic	negative
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.	Henry David Thoreau	age	sarcastic	negative
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.	George Bernard Shaw	age	sarcastic	negative
Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.	Victor Hugo	age	sarcastic	negative
You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.	George Burns	age	sarcastic	negative
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.	Albert Camus	age	sarcastic	negative
Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.	Bill Vaughan	age	sarcastic	negative
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.	Theodore Roosevelt	age	sarcastic	negative
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.	Maurice Chevalier	age	sarcastic	negative
A man growing old becomes a child again.	Sophocles	age	sarcastic	negative
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.	Francis Bacon	age	sarcastic	negative
Age considers youth ventures.	Rabindranath Tagore	age	sarcastic	negative
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.	Voltaire	age	sarcastic	negative
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.	Tom Stoppard	age	sarcastic	negative
Old age is no place for sissies.	Bette Davis	age	sarcastic	negative
I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.	Bob Hope	age	sarcastic	negative
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.	Marcus Tullius Cicero	age	sarcastic	negative
I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.	T. S. Eliot	age	sarcastic	negative
Advice in old age is foolish for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.	Marcus Tullius Cicero	age	sarcastic	negative
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.	Victor Hugo	age	sarcastic	negative
It takes a long time to become young.	Pablo Picasso	age	sarcastic	negative
After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.	Bette Midler	age	sarcastic	negative
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.	Sophia Loren	age	sarcastic	negative
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.	Don Marquis	age	sarcastic	negative
Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.	John Adams	age	sarcastic	negative
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.	Hosea Ballou	age	sarcastic	negative
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.	Stanislaw Lec	age	sarcastic	negative
Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.	Dwight L. Moody	age	sarcastic	negative
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone but, years after, we know it was much later.	Mignon McLaughlin	age	sarcastic	negative
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.	Andre Maurois	age	sarcastic	negative
As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.	Margaret Mead	age	sarcastic	negative
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.	Oliver Wendell Holmes	age	sarcastic	negative
Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.	Betty Friedan	age	sarcastic	negative
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.	Doris Lessing	age	sarcastic	negative
The trick is growing up without growing old.	Casey Stengel	age	sarcastic	negative
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.	Emily Dickinson	age	sarcastic	negative
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.	Lauren Bacall	age	sarcastic	negative
I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.	James Broughton	age	sarcastic	negative
Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.	Euripides	age	sarcastic	negative
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.	Brigitte Bardot	age	sarcastic	negative
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.	William Feather	age	sarcastic	negative
After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.	Helen Gurley Brown	age	sarcastic	negative
You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.	Judith Viorst	age	sarcastic	negative
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.	Henri Frederic Amiel	age	sarcastic	negative
Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.	Sam Ewing	age	sarcastic	negative
My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.	Warren Beatty	age	sarcastic	negative
As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.	Frances Conroy	age	sarcastic	negative
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.	Golda Meir	age	sarcastic	negative
In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.	Pope Paul VI	age	sarcastic	negative
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.	Doug Larson	age	sarcastic	negative
Age is how we determine how valuable you are.	Jane Elliot	age	sarcastic	negative
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.	Bob Hope	age	sarcastic	negative
Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.	Kitty O'Neill Collins	age	sarcastic	negative
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.	Josh Billings	age	sarcastic	negative
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.	Amos Bronson Alcott	age	sarcastic	negative
If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.	B. F. Skinner	age	sarcastic	negative
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.	Louis Kronenberger	age	sarcastic	negative
I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.	Sting	age	sarcastic	negative
You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.	Harrison Ford	age	sarcastic	negative
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.	Jean Paul	age	sarcastic	negative
Old age is a shipwreck.	Charles de Gaulle	age	sarcastic	negative
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.	Amos Bronson Alcott	age	sarcastic	negative
To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.	Alan Bleasdale	age	sarcastic	negative
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.	James Thurber	age	sarcastic	negative
No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.	Katharine Graham	age	sarcastic	negative
If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!	Kevin Spacey	age	sarcastic	negative
Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!	Pierre Corneille	age	sarcastic	negative
I don't want to fight aging I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.	Christine Lahti	age	sarcastic	negative
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.	Don Marquis	age	sarcastic	negative
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.	Pearl S. Buck	age	sarcastic	negative
Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.	Harold Coffin	age	sarcastic	negative
Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.	Doris Day	age	sarcastic	negative
No man is ever old enough to know better.	Holbrook Jackson	age	sarcastic	negative
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.	Logan P. Smith	age	sarcastic	negative
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.	Beverly Sills	age	sarcastic	negative
We pay when old for the excesses of youth.	J. B. Priestley	age	sarcastic	negative
The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.	Leon Edel	age	sarcastic	negative
We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.	Frank A. Clark	age	sarcastic	negative
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.	Max Lerner	age	sarcastic	negative
I'm not afraid of aging.	Shelley Duvall	age	sarcastic	negative
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.	Gene Fowler	age	sarcastic	negative
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.	Sinclair Lewis	age	sarcastic	negative
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.	Thomas Bailey Aldrich	age	sarcastic	negative
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.	Knut Hamsun	age	sarcastic	negative
There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.	Fay Weldon	age	sarcastic	negative
Those who love deeply never grow old they may die of old age, but they die young.	Dorothy Canfield Fisher	age	sarcastic	negative

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75k+ Multi-Label Quotes Dataset for Sentiment & Categorization

This dataset contains 75,966 records of highly curated quotes across multiple labels, engineered explicitly for training text classification layers, instruction fine-tuning evaluation, and benchmarking high-concurrency sentiment analysis workflows.

📊 Dataset Schema & Distributions

The dataset consists of 5 distinct features:

QUOTE (string): The textual content of the quote.
AUTHOR (string): The individual credited with the quote.
GENRE (string): Sub-genre contextual tags.
category (string): Primary thematic multi-label mapping.
sentiment (string): Ground-truth binary sentiment mapping.

Category Distribution Breakdown:

motivational: 27,759 rows
sarcastic: 25,760 rows
funny: 15,557 rows
love quote: 6,890 rows

Sentiment Distribution Breakdown:

positive: 50,206 rows
negative: 25,760 rows

🛠️ Intended Use Cases

Multi-Label Sequence Classification: Ideal for training encoder networks (like RoBERTa or DistilBERT) to classify incoming texts into nested thematic genres and sentiment targets simultaneously.
Instruction-Tuning Alignment (PEFT): Formatted for direct structural mapping when adapting open-weight LLMs (like LLaMA 3 8B) to generate highly contextual responses with intentional emotional undertones (e.g., prompting for a sarcastic or motivational persona).
High-Concurrency Benchmarking: Perfect dataset for batch ingestion into a streaming API or populating vector embedding stores (like Pgvector or Redis) to evaluate retrieval speeds over 75k+ concurrent row reads.

🚀 Ingestion Quick Start

from datasets import load_dataset

# Pull the production-ready split from the Hub
dataset = load_dataset("rama9agg/quotes-sentiment-dataset", split="train")

# Convert sample directly into a pandas frame
df = dataset.select(range(5)).to_pandas()
print(df)

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