"He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she; And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fulness of perfection lies in him."

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"I have gained my experience."

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"Ay, now am I in Arden: the more fool I. When I was at home I was in a better place; but travellers must be content."

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"Motley 's the only wear."

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"My pride fell with my fortunes."

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"Ros. Not one to throw at a dog."

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"Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises."

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"Under the greenwood tree Who loves to lie with me."

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"O, how full of briers is this working-day world!"

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"Your heart's desires be with you!"

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"And thereby hangs a tale."

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"These most brisk and giddy-paced times."

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"Mal. That the soul of our grandam might haply inhabit a bird."

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"We 'll have a swashing and a martial outside, As many other mannish cowards have."

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"Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Even such a woman oweth to her husband."

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"The spinsters and the knitters in the sun And the free maids that weave their thread with bones Do use to chant it: it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age."

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"I will show myself highly fed and lowly taught."

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"Praising what is lost Makes the remembrance dear."

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"I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please."

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"As the old hermit of Prague, that never saw pen and ink, very wittily said to a niece of King Gorboduc, That that is, is."

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"'T is not for gravity to play at cherry-pit with Satan."

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"I 'll not budge an inch."

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"I 'll warrant him heart-whole."

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"A young man married is a man that 's marr'd."

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"And if his name be George, I 'll call him Peter; For new-made honour doth forget men's names."

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"All the learned and authentic fellows."

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"Put thyself into the trick of singularity."

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"The Retort Courteous; . . . the Quip Modest; . . . the Reply Churlish; . . . the Reproof Valiant; . . . the Countercheck Quarrelsome; . . . the Lie with Circumstance; . . . the Lie Direct."

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"Clo. Yes, by Saint Anne, and ginger shall be hot i' the mouth too."

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"I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; For grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop."

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"I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news."

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"Lord of thy presence and no land beside."

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"With bag and baggage."

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"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."

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"I am never merry when I hear sweet music."

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"That no Italian priest Shall tithe or toll in our dominions."

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"O Proserpina, For the flowers now, that frighted thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength,--a malady Most incident to maids; bold oxlips and The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds, The flower-de-luce being one."

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"At my fingers' ends."

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"Answer me in one word."

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"It goes much against my stomach. Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd?"

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""So so" is good, very good, very excellent good; and yet it is not; it is but so so."

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"How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world."

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"I met a fool i' the forest, A motley fool."

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"The big round tears Coursed one another down his innocent nose In piteous chase."

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"We will draw the curtain and show you the picture."

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"Neither rhyme nor reason."

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"Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges."

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"Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent."

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"An I thought he had been valiant and so cunning in fence, I 'ld have seen him damned ere I 'ld have challenged him."

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"To unpathed waters, undreamed shores."

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