William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?"
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Venice
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Frida Giannini
Fashion Designer
"Venice never quite seems real, but rather an ornate film set suspended on the water."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit"
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"But love is blind and lovers cannot see"
Niccolo Paganini
Composer, Violinist
"On December 12, 1829, Paganini wrote his friend Germi: "The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,' outshine everything. I can't describe it!" He was writing from Karlsruhe, in the midst of his triumphal tour through Germany. That letter marks the earliest known mention of the variations that would become famous as "The Carnival of Venice." At the time of his letter, Paganini had already performed the piece in at least four concerts. From then on, it would be one of his most popular compositions."
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"Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased," Polo said. "Perhaps I am afraid of losing Venice all at once, if I speak of it, or perhaps, speaking of other cities, I have already lost it, little by little."
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"The villany you teach me I shall execute; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction."
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"Do all men kill the things they do not love ............ The quality of mercy is not strain'd It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest It blesseth him that gives and him that takes"
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"I like not fair terms and a villain's mind."
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"You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live"
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"Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors."
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"I also want to raise the possibility that there are, in the very long term, "virtue effects" in economics- for instance that widespread corrupt accounting will eventually create bad long term consequences as a sort of obverse effect from the virtue-based boost double-entry book-keeping gave to the heyday of Venice. I suggest that when the financial scene starts reminding you of Sodomand Gomorrah, you should fear practical consequences even if you like to participate in what is going on."
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"I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip"
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"Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy."
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"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart. O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!"
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"Though justice be thy plea consider this, that in the course of justice none of us should see salvation."
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"There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts."
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"The quality of mercy is not strained"
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"If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge."
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"If there was no Hollywood, no next movie, no deal at Warner Brothers, no place in Malibu or Venice, I would still be really happy."
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"If you read a lot, nothing is as great as you've imagined. Venice is - Venice is better."
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"I am not bound to please thee with my answer."
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"Affection, mistress of passion, sways it to the mood of what it likes or loathes."
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"Bassanio: Do all men kill all the things they do not love? Shylock: Hates any man the thing he would not kill? Bassanio: Every offence is not a hate at first."
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"Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe."
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