"Olivia: What's a drunken man like, fool? Feste:……" — William Shakespeare
"Olivia: What's a drunken man like, fool? Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him."
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3,182 Quotes by William Shakespeare
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Were kisses all the joys in bed, One woman would another wed.
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There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.
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Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.
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