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"Masters, spread yourselves."
William Shakespeare / A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.
A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.
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"This is Ercles' vein."
William Shakespeare / A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.
A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.
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"I'll speak in a monstrous little voice."
William Shakespeare / A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.
A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.
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"I am slow of study."
William Shakespeare / A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.
A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.
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"That would hang us, every mother's son."
William Shakespeare / A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.
A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.
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"I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove; I will roar you, an 't were any nightingale."
William Shakespeare / A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.
A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.
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"A proper man, as one shall see in a summer's day."
William Shakespeare / A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.
A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.
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"The human mortals."
William Shakespeare / A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act ii. Sc. 1.
A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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"The rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maid's music."
William Shakespeare / A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act ii. Sc. 1.
A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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"And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness."
William Shakespeare / A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act ii. Sc. 1.
A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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"I 'll put a girdle round about the earth In forty minutes."
William Shakespeare / A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act ii. Sc. 1.
A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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"My heart Is true as steel."
William Shakespeare / A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act ii. Sc. 1.
A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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"I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine."
William Shakespeare / A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act ii. Sc. 1.
A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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"A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing."
William Shakespeare / A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iii. Sc. 1.
A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iii. Sc. 1.
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"Bless thee, Bottom! bless thee! thou art translated."
William Shakespeare / A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iii. Sc. 1.
A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iii. Sc. 1.
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"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"
William Shakespeare / A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iii. Sc. 2.
A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iii. Sc. 2.
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"So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet an union in partition."
William Shakespeare / A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iii. Sc. 2.
A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iii. Sc. 2.
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"Two lovely berries moulded on one stem."
William Shakespeare / A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iii. Sc. 2.
A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iii. Sc. 2.
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"I have an exposition of sleep come upon me."
William Shakespeare / A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iv. Sc. 1.
A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iv. Sc. 1.
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"I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was."
William Shakespeare / A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iv. Sc. 1.
A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iv. Sc. 1.
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"The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was."
William Shakespeare / A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iv. Sc. 1.
A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iv. Sc. 1.
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"For never anything can be amiss, When simpleness and duty tender it."
William Shakespeare / A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act v. Sc. 1.
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act v. Sc. 1.
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"The true beginning of our end."
William Shakespeare / A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act v. Sc. 1.
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act v. Sc. 1.
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"The best in this kind are but shadows."
William Shakespeare / A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act v. Sc. 1.
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act v. Sc. 1.
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"A very gentle beast, and of a good conscience."
William Shakespeare / A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act v. Sc. 1.
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act v. Sc. 1.
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"This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad."
William Shakespeare / A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act v. Sc. 1.
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act v. Sc. 1.
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"The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve."
William Shakespeare / A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act v. Sc. 1.
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act v. Sc. 1.
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"My ventures are not in one bottom trusted, Nor to one place."
William Shakespeare / The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.
The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.
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"Now, by two-headed Janus, Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time."
William Shakespeare / The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.
The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.
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"Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable."
William Shakespeare / The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.
The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.
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"You have too much respect upon the world: They lose it that do buy it with much care."
William Shakespeare / The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.
The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.
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"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano,-- A stage, where every man must play a part; And mine a sad one."
William Shakespeare / The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.
The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.
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"Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?"
William Shakespeare / The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.
The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.
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"There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond."
William Shakespeare / The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.
The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.
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"I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!"
William Shakespeare / The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.
The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.
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"I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing."
William Shakespeare / The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.
The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.
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"Fish not, with this melancholy bait, For this fool gudgeon, this opinion."
William Shakespeare / The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.
The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.
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"Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search."
William Shakespeare / The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.
The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.
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"In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft, I shot his fellow of the selfsame flight The selfsame way, with more advised watch, To find the other forth; and by adventuring both, I oft found both."
William Shakespeare / The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.
The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.
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"They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing."
William Shakespeare / The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.
The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.
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"Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer."
William Shakespeare / The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.
The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.
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"If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces."
William Shakespeare / The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.
The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.
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"The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree."
William Shakespeare / The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.
The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.
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"He doth nothing but talk of his horse."
William Shakespeare / The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.
The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.
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"God, made him, and therefore let him pass for a man."
William Shakespeare / The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.
The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.
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"When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast."
William Shakespeare / The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.
The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.
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"I dote on his very absence."
William Shakespeare / The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.
The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.
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"My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient."
William Shakespeare / The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.
The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.
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"Ships are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves."
William Shakespeare / The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.
The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.
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"I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you. What news on the Rialto?"
William Shakespeare / The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.
The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.
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