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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
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"So now I have confessed that he is thine, And I my self am mortgaged to thy will, My self I'll forfeit, so that other mine, Thou wilt restore to be my comfort still."

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
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"O call not me to justify the wrong, That thy unkindness lays upon my heart, Wound me not with thine eye but with thy tongue, Use power with power, and slay me not by art."

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
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"Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art, As those whose beauties proudly make them cruel; For well thou know'st to my dear doting heart Thou art the fairest and most precious jewel."

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
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"Tired with all these for restful death I cry, As to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimmed in jollity, And purest faith unhappily forsworn."

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Oscar Wilde Writer
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"But what of life whose bitter hungry sea Flows at our heels, and gloom of sunless night Covers the days which never more return? Ambition, love and all the thoughts that burn We lose too soon, and only find delight In withered husks of some dead memory."

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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
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"We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music."

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Lord Byron Poet, Novelist
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"My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief, Are mine alone!"

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