"A peevish self-willed harlotry it is. *She’s a stubborn little brat.*"
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"The quality of mercy is not strained"
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"But to my mind, though I am native here, And to the manner born, it is a custom, More honored in the breach than the observance."
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"Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?"
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"A light wife doth make a heavy husband."
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"Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess."
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"Stones have been known to move and trees to speak."
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"Like a red morn that ever yet betokened, Wreck to the seaman, tempest to the field, Sorrow to the shepherds, woe unto the birds, Gusts and foul flaws to herdmen and to herds."
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"When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room. Truly, I would the gods had made thee poetical."
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"Covering discretion with a coat of folly."
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"And I will make it felony to drink small beer."
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"I'll note you in my book of memory."
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"If I be waspish, best beware my sting."
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"Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings."
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"Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne And fall of many kings."
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"Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that's gone."
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"A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue."
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"Thou canst not speak of what thou dost not feel."
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"Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues."
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"Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue then shall be To say there is no vice but beggary"
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