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"What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no."
"All that glitters is not gold."
"As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words."
"Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious."
"Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice."
"In friendship, as in love, we are often happier through our ignorance than our knowledge."
"There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions."
"The good I stand on is my truth and honesty."
"Of all the flowers, me thinks a rose is best."
"Full fathom five thy father lies"
"The villany you teach me I shall execute; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction."
"The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun."
"O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse."
"If the skin were parchment and the blows you gave were ink, Your own handwriting would tell you what I think."
"And thence from Athens turn away our eyes To seek new friends and stranger companies."
"Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it."
"The object of Art is to give life a shape."
"The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails."
"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."
"Come, woo me, woo me, for now I am in a holiday humor, and like enough to consent."