"Age, I do abhor thee, youth, I do adore thee."
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"Read o'er this And after, this, and then to breakfast with What appetite you have."
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"Every true man's apparel fits your thief."
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"Do not plunge thyself too far in anger."
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"Macbeth to Witches: What are these So wither'd and so wild in their attire, That look not like th' inhabitants o' th' earth, And yet are on 't?"
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"Fear and niceness, the handmaids of all women, or more truly, woman its pretty self."
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"He was met even now As mad as the vex'd sea; singing aloud; Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds, With bur-docks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers, Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow In our sustaining corn."
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"There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream; There with fantastic garlands did she come Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them: There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke; When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook."
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"You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life."
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"His jest will savour but of shallow wit, When thousands weep, more than did laugh at it."
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"I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving."
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"I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange?"
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"For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?"
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"What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her?"
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"O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!"
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"You lie, in faith; for you are call'd plain Kate, And bonny Kate and sometimes Kate the curst; But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom Kate of Kate Hall, my super-dainty Kate, For dainties are all Kates, and therefore, Kate, Take this of me, Kate of my consolation; Hearing thy mildness praised in every town, Thy virtues spoke of, and thy beauty sounded, Yet not so deeply as to thee belongs, Myself am moved to woo thee for my wife."
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"For it falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us While it was ours."
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"To beguile the time, look like the time. Bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue."
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"To beguile the time, look like the time."
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"As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not" (5.3.25-28)."
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