"In this world, [of Flash and Filigree] nothing is true, and censure or outrage is simply irrelevant."
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"We are setting out to create new worlds, new beings, new modes of consciousness."
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"So many people in the Western World are just automatically made ill by any sort of frank writing about sexual matters."
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"[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain."
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"There's nothing in this world can make me joy."
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"This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators, save only he,Did that they did in envy of Caesar;He only, in a general honest thoughtAnd common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elementsSo mixd in him that Nature might stand upAnd say to all the world, This was a man!"
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"For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?"
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"Teeth hadst thou in thy head when thou wast born, To signify thou camest to bite the world."
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"My life, my joy, my food, my ail the world!"
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"Britain is A world by itself, and we will nothing pay For wearing our own noses."
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"I am one, my liege, Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world Have so incensed that I am reckless what I do to spite the world."
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"The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all this time there was not any man died in his own person, videlicet, in a love-cause."
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"Good Lord, for alliance! Thus goes every one to the world but I, and I am sunburnt; I may sit in a corner and cry heigh-ho for a husband!"
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"A book? O, rare one, Be not, as is our fangled world, a garment Nobler than that it covers."
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"Fortune reigns in gifts of the world."
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"All the world's a stage ... and you better have a zoning variance or it's coming down."
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"Would I were dead, if God's good will were so, For what is in this world but grief and woe?"
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"Slander, whose whisper over the world's diameter, as level as the cannon to its blank, transports its poisoned shot."
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"For where thou art, there is the world itself, With every several pleasure in the world, And where thou art not, desolation."
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"Sick in the world's regard, wretched and low."
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