"He will give the devil his due."

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"Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon."

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"Base is the slave that pays."

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"Under which king, Bezonian? speak, or die!"

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"Food for powder, food for powder; they 'll fill a pit as well as better."

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"When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection."

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"This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands,-- This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England."

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"An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England!"

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"Exceedingly well read."

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"By this leek, I will most horribly revenge: I eat and eat, I swear."

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"Rob me the exchequer."

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"The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on."

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"It was alway yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing to make it too common."

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"Give you a reason on compulsion! If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I."

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"He dies, and makes no sign."

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"But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive."

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"Call you that backing of your friends? A plague upon such backing!"

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"A foutre for the world and worldlings base! I speak of Africa and golden joys."

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"Comes at the last, and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall--and farewell king!"

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"A mockery king of snow."

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"There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things."

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"Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety."

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"I would to God thou and I knew where a commodity of good names were to be bought."

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"And my large kingdom for a little grave, A little little grave, an obscure grave."

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"The tongues of dying men Enforce attention like deep harmony."

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"Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought."

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"I do now remember the poor creature, small beer."

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"There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops; and I will make it felony to drink small beer."

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"Thus we play the fools with the time, and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us."

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"This sickness doth infect The very life-blood of our enterprise."

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"A good mouth-filling oath."

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"If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I 'll be hanged."

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"O, monstrous! but one half-pennyworth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack!"

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"I was now a coward on instinct."

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"Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter: that when he speaks, The air, a chartered libertine, is still."

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"You may as well say, that 's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion."

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"O, who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? Or wallow naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat? O, no! the apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse."

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"Most forcible Feeble."

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"It would be argument for a week, laughter for a month, and a good jest for ever."

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"That daffed the world aside, And bid it pass."

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"Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, upon Wednesday in Wheeson week."

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"Fresh as a bridegroom; and his chin new reap'd Showed like a stubble-land at harvest-home; He was perfumed like a milliner, And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose and took 't away again."

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"I am not in the roll of common men."

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"For my voice, I have lost it with halloing and singing of anthems."

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"Lord, Lord! methought, what pain it was to drown! What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears! What ugly sights of death within mine eyes! Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks, Ten thousand men that fishes gnawed upon, Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, All scattered in the bottom of the sea: Some lay in dead men's skulls; and in those holes Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept, As 't were in scorn of eyes, reflecting gems."

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"To leave this keen encounter of our wits."

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"I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion."

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"A rascally yea-forsooth knave."

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"A deal of skimble-skamble stuff."

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"I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety."

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