"Mercutio: "If love be rough with you, be rough with love."
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"I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy eyes—and moreover, I will go with thee to thy uncle’s."
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"Men at sometime are the masters of their fate."
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"Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?"
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"My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly."
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"To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight."
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"Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue."
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"When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness."
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"Honour travels in a strait so narrow Where one but goes abreast."
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"Thou speak'st like him's untutored to repeat: Who makes the fairest show means most deceit."
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"Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty To load a falling man."
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"And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?"
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"What infinite heart's-ease Must kings neglect that private men enjoy! And what have kings that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save general ceremony?"
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"Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear."
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"In limited professions there's boundless theft."
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"Base is the slave that pays."
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"Affection, mistress of passion, sways it to the mood of what it likes or loathes."
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"No reckoning made, but sent to my account with all my imperfections on my head."
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"Foul fiend of France and hag of all despite, Encompassed with thy lustful paramours, Becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age And twit with cowardice a man half dead?"
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"Plenty and peace breed cowards; hardness ever of hardiness is mother."
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