"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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"We do pray for mercy, and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy."
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"I am never merry when I hear sweet music."
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"Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time."
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"Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy."
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"All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told."
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"The weakest kind of fruit drops earliest to the ground."
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"If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces."
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"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano!"
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"Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search."
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"Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head?"
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"They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing."
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"O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!"
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"He is well paid that is well satisfied."
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"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."
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"Venice seemed incredibly lovely, elvishly lovely--to me like a dream of Old Gondor, or Pelargir of the Numenorean Ships, before the return of the Shadow."
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