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Courteous Quotes by William Shakespeare

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Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie? I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth; the…

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Live loath'd and long, Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites, Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears, You fools of fortune, trencher friends, time flies Cap and knee slaves, vapors, and minute jacks.

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I, measuring his affections by my own, Which then most sought where most might not be found, Being one too many by my weary…

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Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires.

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“Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep’st so sound. Julius Caesar (2.1.248-251)”

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Truth needs no color; beauty, no pencil.

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Have you not heard it said full oft, A woman's nay doth stand for naught?

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