"We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name."
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"Heaven would that she these gifts should have, and I to live and die her slave."
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"Gloucester, we have done deeds of charity, made peace of enmity, fair love of hate, between these swelling wrong-incensed peers."
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"Under the colour of commending him I have access my own love to prefer; But Silvia is too fair, too true, too holy, To be corrupted with my worthless gifts."
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"I am not in the giving vein today."
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"She told her, while she kept it, 'Twould make her amiable and subdue my father Entirely to her love, but if she lost it Or made a gift of it, my father's eye Should hold her loathed and his spirits should hunt After new fancies."
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"It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber."
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"There's villainous news abroad."
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"The nature of bad news affects the teller."
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"You, and your lady, Take from my heart all thankfulness!"
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"You great benefactors, sprinkle our society with thankfulness. For your own gifts, make yourselves praised."
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"In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame."
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"Fall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay; My major vow lies here, this I'll obey."
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"Discuss unto me: art thou officer, Or art thou base, common, and popular?"
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"Plutus himself, That knows the tinct and multiplying med'cine, Hath not in nature's mystery more science Than I have in this ring."
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"Thoughts are but dreams till their effects are tried."
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"For by his face straight shall you know his heart."
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"Thou lump of foul deformity!"
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"Men from children nothing differ."
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"They were devils incarnate."
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