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Your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.

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Come away! For you shall hence upon your wedding day.

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O gentlemen, the time of life is short! To spend that shortness basely were too long.

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Therefore, to be possessed with double pomp,To guard a title that was rich before,To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,To throw a perfume on the violet,To smooth the ice, or add another hueUnto the rainbow, or with taper lightTo seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.

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Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners.

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Ceremony was but devised at first to set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, recanting goodness, sorry ere 'Tis shown; but where there is true friendship, there needs none.

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If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work.

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These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that walk and know not what they are.

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I love long life better than figs.

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You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When you do take the means whereby I live.

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Gold? Yellow, glittering, precious gold? ......

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Who is here so base that would be a bondman? If any, speak, for him have I offended. Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman? If any, sp...

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I have Immortal longings in me.

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Seyton. The Queen, my lord, is dead. Macbeth. She should have died hereafter;...

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An old man, sir, and his wits are not so blunt as, God help, I would desire they were; but, in faith, honest as the skin between his brows.

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I to the world am like a drop of waterThat in the ocean seeks another drop,Who, falling there to find his fellow forth,Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself.

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'Tis not hard, I think, For men so old as we to keep the peace.

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I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

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An two men ride of a horse, one must ride behind.

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Beware the ides of March.

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