"This man, lady, hath robb'd many beasts of……" — William Shakespeare
"This man, lady, hath robb'd many beasts of their particular additions: he is as valiant as a lion, churlish as the bear, slow as the elephant-a man into whom nature hath so crowded humours that his valour is crush'd into folly, his folly sauced with discretion."
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William Shakespeare
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3,182 Quotes by William Shakespeare
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Come, woo me, woo me, for now I am in a holiday humor, and like enough to consent.
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Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.
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Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
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People usually are the happiest at home.
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In delay there lies no plenty.
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Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary.
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Grief makes one hour ten.
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Were kisses all the joys in bed, One woman would another wed.
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I understand thy kisses, and thou mine, And that's a feeling disputation.
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He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting…
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O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint.
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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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Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times. Princes and potentates, political…
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What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars…
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For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the…
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Imagine a school-boy who has outgrown his clothes. Imagine the repairs made on the vestments where the enlarged frame had…
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Upon the whole, Chymistry is as yet but an opening science, closely connected with the usefull and ornamental arts, and…
— Joseph Black
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I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage…
— Charles Darwin
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Mystical additions and subtractions always come out the way you want.
— Umberto Eco
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The study of an idea is, of necessity, the story of many things. Ideas, like large rivers, never have just…
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The original series of Watchmen is the complete story that Alan Moore and I wanted to tell. However, I appreciate…
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Pertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known as Normal American. Most of the public buildings of the United…
— Ambrose Bierce
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According to one study by the United States Geological survey, 86 percent of oil reserves in the United States are…
— Daniel Yergin
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...diabolical error, when it has artfully colored its lies, easily clothes itself in the likeness of truth while very brief…
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