Character Quote by William Shakespeare

“To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.”

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Let us kill all lawyers

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A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!

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O tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's hide!

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Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my…

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Divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth.

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

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“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs; Being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with…

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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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