"They have a plentiful lack of wit."
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"He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making, worse in mind."
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"Love bears it out even to the edge of doom."
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"You peasant swain! You whoreson malt-horse drudge!"
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"Sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency."
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"O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!"
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"Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too."
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"So holy and so perfect is my love, And I in such a poverty of grace, That I shall think it a most plenteous crop To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps."
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"The truest poetry is the most feigning."
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"Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounce it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines."
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"For now I stand as one upon a rock environed with a wilderness of sea, who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave, expecting ever when some envious surge will in his brinish bowels swallow him."
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"Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer."
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"Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity."
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"What valor were it, when a cur doth grin, for one to thrust his hand between his teeth, when he might spurn him with his foot away?"
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"Foul whisp'rings are abroad."
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"Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered!"
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"I am never merry when I hear sweet music."
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"These violent delights have violent ends And in their triump die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume"
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"Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time."
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"I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man."
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