"Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the bagpipe sings I the nose cannot contain their urine."
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"How can tyrants safely govern home, Unless abroad they purchase great alliance."
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"Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love."
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"I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game's afoot; Follow your spirit: and upon this charge, Cry — God for Harry! England and Saint George!"
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"Presume not that I am the thing I was."
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"The gates of monarchs Are arched so high that giants may jet through And keep their impious turbans on without Good morrow to the sun."
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"Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it."
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"My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind; So flew'd, so sanded; their heads are hung with ears that sweep away the morning dew."
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"He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer."
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"There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray you, love, remember: and there is pansies, that's for thoughts. There's fennel for you, and columbines: — there 's rue for you; and here's some for me: — we may call it, herb of grace o'Sundays: — you may wear your rue with a difference. — There's a daisy: — I would give you some violets; but they withered all, when my father died: — They say, he made a good end."
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"I must to the barber's, monsieur, for methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face."
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"Now is the winter of our discontent."
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"Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid's archery, Sink in apple of his eye."
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"Laughing faces do not mean that there is absence of sorrow! But it means that they have the ability to deal with it"
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"I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger. 'No, and if he were I would burn my library."
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"He jests at scars that never felt a wound."
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"And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of."
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"Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all."
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"Remembrance of things past."
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"Slanders, sir, for the satirical rogue says here that old men have grey beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging think amber and plum-tree gum, and that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams."
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