"To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown; But where there is true friendship, there needs none."
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"Grace and remembrance be to you both."
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"Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame."
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"Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly."
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"Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling."
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"My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that color."
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"If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey, and death unloads thee."
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"Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms."
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"A very ancient and fish-like smell."
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"Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court."
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"If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt."
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"Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat, and yet thy head hath been beaten as addle as an egg for quarrelling."
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"Death-counterfeiting sleep."
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"O, she misused me past the endurance of a block."
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"The gallantry of his grief did put me into a towering passion."
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"To saucy doubts and fears."
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"Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor"
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"A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry. But were we burd'ned with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain: So thou, that hast no unkind mate to grieve thee, With urging helpless patience wouldst relieve me; But if thou live to see like right bereft, This fool-begged patience in thee will be left."
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"Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out, Even to a full disgrace."
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"If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue."
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