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"A kind Of excellent dumb discourse."
William Shakespeare / The Tempest. Act iii. Sc. 3.
The Tempest. Act iii. Sc. 3.
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"Deeper than e'er plummet sounded."
William Shakespeare / The Tempest. Act iii. Sc. 3.
The Tempest. Act iii. Sc. 3.
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"Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep."
William Shakespeare / The Tempest. Act iv. Sc. 1.
The Tempest. Act iv. Sc. 1.
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"With foreheads villanous low."
William Shakespeare / The Tempest. Act iv. Sc. 1.
The Tempest. Act iv. Sc. 1.
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"Deeper than did ever plummet sound I 'll drown my book."
William Shakespeare / The Tempest. Act v. Sc. 1.
The Tempest. Act v. Sc. 1.
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"Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie."
William Shakespeare / The Tempest. Act v. Sc. 1.
The Tempest. Act v. Sc. 1.
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"Merrily, merrily shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough."
William Shakespeare / The Tempest. Act v. Sc. 1.
The Tempest. Act v. Sc. 1.
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"Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits."
William Shakespeare / The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act i. Sc. 1.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act i. Sc. 1.
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"I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, because I think him so."
William Shakespeare / The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act i. Sc. 2.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act i. Sc. 2.
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"O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day!"
William Shakespeare / The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act i. Sc. 3.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act i. Sc. 3.
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"And if it please you, so; if not, why, so."
William Shakespeare / The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 1.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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"O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple."
William Shakespeare / The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 1.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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"She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold."
William Shakespeare / The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 4.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 4.
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"He makes sweet music with th' enamell'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage."
William Shakespeare / The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 7.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 7.
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"That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, If with his tongue he cannot win a woman."
William Shakespeare / The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act iii. Sc. 1.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act iii. Sc. 1.
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"Except I be by Sylvia in the night, There is no music in the nightingale."
William Shakespeare / The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act iii. Sc. 1.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act iii. Sc. 1.
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"A man I am, cross'd with adversity."
William Shakespeare / The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act iv. Sc. 1.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act iv. Sc. 1.
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"Is she not passing fair?"
William Shakespeare / The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act iv. Sc. 4.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act iv. Sc. 4.
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"How use doth breed a habit in a man!"
William Shakespeare / The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act v. Sc. 4.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act v. Sc. 4.
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"O heaven! were man But constant, he were perfect."
William Shakespeare / The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act v. Sc. 4.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act v. Sc. 4.
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"Come not within the measure of my wrath."
William Shakespeare / The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act v. Sc. 4.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act v. Sc. 4.
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"I will make a Star-chamber matter of it."
William Shakespeare / The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.
The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.
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"All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may."
William Shakespeare / The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.
The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.
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"It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love."
William Shakespeare / The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.
The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.
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"Seven hundred pounds and possibilities is good gifts."
William Shakespeare / The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.
The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.
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"Mine host of the Garter."
William Shakespeare / The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.
The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.
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"I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets here."
William Shakespeare / The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.
The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.
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"If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt."
William Shakespeare / The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.
The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.
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"O base Hungarian wight! wilt thou the spigot wield?"
William Shakespeare / The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3.
The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3.
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""Convey," the wise it call. "Steal!" foh! a fico for the phrase!"
William Shakespeare / The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3.
The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3.
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"Sail like my pinnace to these golden shores."
William Shakespeare / The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3.
The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3.
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"Tester I 'll have in pouch, when thou shalt lack, Base Phrygian Turk!"
William Shakespeare / The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3.
The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3.
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"Thou art the Mars of malcontents."
William Shakespeare / The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3.
The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3.
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"Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English."
William Shakespeare / The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 4.
The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 4.
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"We burn daylight."
William Shakespeare / The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 1.
The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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"There 's the humour of it."
William Shakespeare / The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 1.
The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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"Faith, thou hast some crotchets in thy head now."
William Shakespeare / The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 1.
The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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"Why, then the world 's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open."
William Shakespeare / The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2.
The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2.
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"This is the short and the long of it."
William Shakespeare / The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2.
The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2.
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"Unless experience be a jewel."
William Shakespeare / The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2.
The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2.
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"Like a fair house, built on another man's ground."
William Shakespeare / The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2.
The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2.
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"We have some salt of our youth in us."
William Shakespeare / The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 3.
The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 3.
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"I cannot tell what the dickens his name is."
William Shakespeare / The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 2.
The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 2.
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"What a taking was he in when your husband asked who was in the basket!"
William Shakespeare / The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 3.
The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 3.
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"O, what a world of vile ill-favour'd faults Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!"
William Shakespeare / The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 4.
The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 4.
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"Happy man be his dole!"
William Shakespeare / The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 4.
The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 4.
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"I have a kind of alacrity in sinking."
William Shakespeare / The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.
The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.
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"As good luck would have it."
William Shakespeare / The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.
The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.
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"The rankest compound of villanous smell that ever offended nostril."
William Shakespeare / The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.
The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.
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"A man of my kidney."
William Shakespeare / The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.
The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.
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