"I have heard of some kind of men that put quarrels purposely on others, to taste their valor."
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"Things are often spoke and seldom meant."
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"Fie, fie, how frantically I square my talk!"
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"This act is an ancient tale new told; And, in the last repeating, troublesome, Being urged at a time unseasonable."
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"I'll be damned for never a king's son in Christendom."
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"Suspicion shall be all stuck full of eyes."
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"The fool multitude, that choose by show, not learning more than the fond eye doth teach."
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"How much more doth beauty beauteous seem by that sweet ornament which truth doth give!"
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"Women being the weaker vessels, are ever thrust to the walls."
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"You shall more command with years than with your weapons."
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"A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain."
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"Wishers were ever fools."
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"A woman impudent and mannish grown Is not more loath'd than an effeminate man."
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"Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts To courtship and such fair ostents of love As shall conveniently become you there."
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"I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo to in festival terms."
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"As for my wife, I would you had her spirit in such another; The third o' th' world is yours, which with a snaffle You may pace easy, but not such a wife."
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"Wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes, but presently prevent the ways to wail."
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"So many miseries have craz'd my voice, That my woe-wearied tongue is still and mute."
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"I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools."
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"Wisdom and fortune combating together, If that the former dare but what it can, No chance may shake it."
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