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"The more rational statement is that we feel sorry because we strike, afraid because we tremble, and not that we cry, strike, or tremble because we are sorry, angry, or fearful as the case may be."
"This is a war universe. War all the time. There may be other universes, but ours seems to be based on war and games."
"When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will"
"Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud."
"A good man's fortune may grow out at heels."
"I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out."
"Two may keep counsel putting one away!"
"Show me a mistress that is passing fair, what doth her beauty serve but as a note where I may read who pass'd that passing fair?"
"Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner. BENEDICK Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains. BEATRICE I took no more pains for those thanks than you take pains to thank me: if it had been painful, I would not have come. BENEDICK You take pleasure then in the message? BEATRICE Yea, just so much as you may take upon a knife's point ... You have no stomach, signior: fare you well. Exit BENEDICK Ha! 'Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner;' there's a double meaning in that... (Much Ado About Nothing)"
"O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do."
"Nay, do not think I flatter. For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flattered?"
"Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but, being in, bear t that th' opposed may beware of thee."
"I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me he shall never make me such a fool."
"For my part, if a lie may do thee grace, I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have."
"Should the poor be flattered? No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, and crook the pregnant hinges of the knee where thrift may follow fawning."
"Things may serve long, but not serve ever."
"And worse I may be yet: the worst is not So long as we can say 'This is the worst."
"I fill up a place, which may be better... when I have made it empty."
"I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father."
"The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS."
