"Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools."

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"Nothing comes amiss; so money comes withal."

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"This is very midsummer madness."

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"Is there no respect of place, parsons, nor time in you?"

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"I would the gods had made thee poetical."

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"The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet."

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"How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown, Within whose circuit is Elysium And all that poets feign of bliss and joy!"

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"In those holy fields Over whose acres walked those blessed feet Which fourteen hundred years ago were nail'd For our advantage on the bitter cross."

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"Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave, But not remember'd in thy epitaph!"

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"The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea."

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"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there 's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger: Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood."

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"And thus I clothe my naked villany With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ, And seem a saint when most I play the devil."

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"Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting."

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"Falstaff sweats to death, And lards the lean earth as he walks along."

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"Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man?"

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"The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fixed sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch; Fire answers fire, and through their paly flames Each battle sees the other's umbered face; Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear, and from the tents The armourers, accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation."

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"Warwick, peace, Proud setter up and puller down of kings!"

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"Sir, he made a chimney in my father's house, and the bricks are alive at this day to testify it."

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"Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer."

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"An habitation giddy and unsure Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart."

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"Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office, and his tongue Sounds ever after as a sullen bell, Remember'd tolling a departing friend."

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"Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere."

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"Thou hast damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint."

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"Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time."

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"An I have not forgotten what the inside of a church is made of, I am a pepper-corn."

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"Even at the turning o' the tide."

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"Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying! I grant you I was down and out of breath; and so was he. But we rose both at an instant, and fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock."

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"A plague of all cowards, I say."

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"What doth gravity out of his bed at midnight?"

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"Eating the bitter bread of banishment."

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"And now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked."

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"Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, And would have told him half his Troy was burnt."

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"Gave His body to that pleasant country's earth, And his pure soul unto his captain Christ, Under whose colours he had fought so long."

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"Hot. Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them?"

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"This day is called the feast of Crispian: He that outlives this day and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named, And rouse him at the name of Crispian."

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"O, call back yesterday, bid time return!"

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"Men of few words are the best men."

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"Then shall our names, Familiar in his mouth as household words,-- Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter, Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,-- Be in their flowing cups freshly remembered."

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"Framed in the prodigality of nature."

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"As cold as any stone."

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"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers."

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"A fellow of no mark nor likelihood."

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"Brain him with his lady's fan."

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"Close up his eyes and draw the curtain close; And let us all to meditation."

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"I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men."

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"I have peppered two of them: two I am sure I have paid, two rogues in buckram suits. I tell thee what, Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face; call me horse. Thou knowest my old ward: here I lay, and thus I bore my point. Four rogues in buckram let drive at me--"

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"Who lined himself with hope, Eating the air on promise of supply."

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"And telling me, the sovereign'st thing on earth Was parmaceti for an inward bruise; And that it was great pity, so it was, This villanous saltpetre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly; and but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier."

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"The setting sun, and music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in remembrance more than things long past."

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"All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens."

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