"A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!"

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"A merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal."

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"He doth nothing but talk of his horse."

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"Let it serve for table-talk."

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"The true beginning of our end."

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"A child of our grandmother Eve, a female; or, for thy more sweet understanding, a woman."

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"Is it so nominated in the bond?"

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"For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently."

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"Sits the wind in that corner?"

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"Done to death by slanderous tongues."

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"The boy hath sold him a bargain,--a goose."

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"An unlesson'd girl, unschool'd, unpractised; Happy in this, she is not yet so old But she may learn."

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"In the posteriors of this day, which the rude multitude call the afternoon."

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"There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond."

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"Swift as a shadow, short as any dream; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That in a spleen unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, "Behold!" The jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion."

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"Devise, wit; write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio."

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"'T is not in the bond."

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"Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?"

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"Comparisons are odorous."

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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."

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"Hanging and wiving goes by destiny."

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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."

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"For never anything can be amiss, When simpleness and duty tender it."

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"I 'll put a girdle round about the earth In forty minutes."

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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?"

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"Let me take you a button-hole lower."

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"You two are book-men."

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"As merry as the day is long."

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"A fellow that hath had losses, and one that hath two gowns and every thing handsome about him."

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"O Father Abram! what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect The thoughts of others!"

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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."

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"You shall comprehend all vagrom men."

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"I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word."

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"The rational hind Costard."

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"A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing."

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"The eftest way."

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"In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt But being season'd with a gracious voice Obscures the show of evil?"

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"What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?"

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"Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable."

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"Are you good men and true?"

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"Or, having sworn too hard a keeping oath, Study to break it and not break my troth."

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"Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, Reply."

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"From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world."

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"I dote on his very absence."

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"Masters, it is proved already that you are little better than false knaves; and it will go near to be thought so shortly."

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"If I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in my heart to bestow it all of your worship."

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"O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do!"

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"For it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value; then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours."

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"I was not born under a rhyming planet."

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"Patch grief with proverbs."

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