"Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom."

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"Sail like my pinnace to these golden shores."

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"He arrests him on it; And follows close the rigour of the statute, To make him an example."

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"I would fain die a dry death."

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"O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple."

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"Seven hundred pounds and possibilities is good gifts."

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"Young in limbs, in judgment old."

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"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"

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"He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument."

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"Here are a few of the unpleasant'st words That ever blotted paper!"

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"Is most tolerable, and not to be endured."

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"The most peaceable way for you if you do take a thief, is to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company."

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"If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge."

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"The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve."

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"You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When you do take the means whereby I live."

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"The best in this kind are but shadows."

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"Charm ache with air, and agony with words."

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"Ships are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves."

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"Many can brook the weather that love not the wind."

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"I am a tainted wether of the flock, Meetest for death: the weakest kind of fruit Drops earliest to the ground."

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"My ventures are not in one bottom trusted, Nor to one place."

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"That unlettered small-knowing soul."

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"He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man."

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"He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink."

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"And the vile squeaking of the wry-necked fife."

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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."

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"A harmless necessary cat."

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"I am slow of study."

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"Thus ornament is but the guiled shore To a most dangerous sea."

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"Benedick the married man."

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"The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree."

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"That would hang us, every mother's son."

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"I never tempted her with word too large, But, as a brother to his sister, show'd Bashful sincerity and comely love."

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"They have measured many a mile To tread a measure with you on this grass."

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"They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps."

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"I'll speak in a monstrous little voice."

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"A buck of the first head."

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"I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I."

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"These are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion."

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"Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother."

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"The young gentleman, according to Fates and Destinies and such odd sayings, the Sisters Three and such branches of learning, is indeed deceased; or, as you would say in plain terms, gone to heaven."

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"Many a time and oft In the Rialto you have rated me."

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"At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows."

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"A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel!"

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"I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing."

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"Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour? No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married."

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"Every one can master a grief but he that has it."

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"To sell a bargain well is as cunning as fast and loose."

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"All that glisters is not gold."

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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."

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