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All of Creation’s a farce. Man was born as a joke. In his head his reason is buffeted Like wind-blown smoke. Life is a game. Everyone ridicules everyone else. But he who has the last laugh Laughs longest.
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Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects.
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I thought my heart had been wounded with the claws of a lion.
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Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.
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Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania
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Poise the cause in justice's equal scales, Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails.
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Let's take the instant by the forward top; For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time Steals ere we can effect them.
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You are an alchemist; make gold of that.
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You lack the season of all natures, sleep.
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And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence
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Retire me to my Milan, where Every third thought shall be my grave.
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Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. Then your love would also change.
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Marriage is a matter of more worth Than to be dealt in by attorneyship.
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Not an angel of the air, Bird melodious or bird fair, Be absent hence!
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Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
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And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes Heaven drowsy with the harmony.
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That we would do We should do when we would, for this 'would' changes, And hath abatements and delays as many As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents, And then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh, That hurts by easing.
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You speak an infinite deal of nothing.
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My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
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When devils will the blackest sins put on They do suggest at first with heavenly shows
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Why, this hath not a finger's dignity.
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I swear again, I would not be a queen For all the world.
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Thoughts are but dreams till their effects are tried.
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To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To be angry is to move, to be brave is to stand still. Therefore, if you're angry, you'll run away.)