William Shakespeare Quotes

Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim, When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid!

William Shakespeare

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• Loved
• Beggar
• Cupid
• Maid

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• The question for politicians here is fundamental: You can read the polls, or you can change the polls. Stand up on the things you believe in.

  

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• The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

  

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• I was taught to respect everyone for the simple reason that we're all God's children. I was taught, in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.... to judge a man not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character. And I was taught that character...is simply doing what's right when nobody's looking.

  

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• Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim, When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • King
  • Loved
  • Beggar