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Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a colossus, and we petty men...

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When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

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If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

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How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere!

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Neither a borrower nor a lender be For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

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A horse a horse my kingdom for a horse

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That high All-seer which I dallied with Hath turned my feigned prayer on my head, And given in earnest what I begged in jest.

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Lear. Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? Gloucester. Ay, sir....

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Out, out, brief candle. Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player...

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To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day...

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So may the outward shows be least themselves:The world is still deceived with ornament.

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I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

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Yet thou dost look Like Patience gazing on kings' graves, and smiling Extremity out of act.

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Yet I'll not shed her blood, Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth as monumental alabaster.

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Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing.

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Yet now farewell, and farewell life with thee!

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Your wife would give you little thanks for that If she were by to hear you make the offer.

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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

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Don Pedro. She cannot endure to hear tell of a husband. Leonato. O, by no means; she mocks all her wooers out of suit.

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Timon hath made his everlasting mansion Upon the beached verge of the salt flood,...

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