"O father Abram, what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealing teaches them suspect The thoughts of others!"
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"Some there be that shadows kiss; Such have but a shadow's bliss."
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"Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings that fear their subjects treachery?"
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"Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep."
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"A little water clears us of this deed."
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"I am the Prince of Wales; and think not, Percy, To share with me in glory any more: Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere."
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"Though I be but prince of Wales, yet I am the king of courtesy."
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"Hamlet: Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring? Ophelia: 'Tis brief, my lord. Hamlet: As woman's love."
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"DON PEDRO Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick. BEATRICE Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one: marry, once before he won it of me with false dice, therefore your grace may well say I have lost it. DON PEDRO You have put him down, lady, you have put him down. BEATRICE So I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I should prove the mother of fools."
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"I am a kind of burr; I shall stick."
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"Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words. Lord Polonius: What is the matter, my lord? Hamlet: Between who? Lord Polonius: I mean, the matter that you read, my lord."
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"I'll privily away; I love the people, But do not like to stage me to their eyes; Though it do well, I do not relish well Their loud applause and aves vehement, Nor do I think the man of safe discretion That does not affect it."
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"I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire."
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"Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less they deserve ... the more merit in your bounty."
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"Strong reasons make strong actions."
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"They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love."
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"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor."
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"Say as you think and speak it from your souls."
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"love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit"
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"Retire me to my Milan, where Every third thought shall be my grave."
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