"To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons."
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"Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping-houses, and the blessed sun himself a fair hot wench in flame-colored taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of the day."
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"What need the bridge much broader than the flood?"
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"Some say that ever 'gainst the season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor wi"
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"Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man."
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"God grant us patience!"
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"My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty. To you I am bound for life and education. My life and education both do learn me How to respect you. You are the lord of my duty, I am hitherto your daughter. But here’s my husband, And so much duty as my mother showed To you, preferring you before her father, So much I challenge that I may profess Due to the Moor my lord."
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"He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting all the church did echo."
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"My crown is in my heart, not on my head."
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"You are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job."
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"I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more, is none"
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"I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting"
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"Yet but three come one more. Two of both kinds make up four. Ere she comes curst and sad. Cupid is a knavish lad. Thus to make poor females mad."
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"Let us be Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon"
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"Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time."
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"Though those that are betray'd Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe"
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"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools."
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"Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you."
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"Suit the action to the word, the word to the action."
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"Love runs away from those chasing her, and those who run away, she throws herself on his neck."
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