"To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little More than a little is by much too much."

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"So wise so young, they say, do never live long."

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"Banish plump Jack, and banish all the world."

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"Delays have dangerous ends."

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"And sheathed their swords for lack of argument."

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"That 's a perilous shot out of an elder-gun."

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"To the latter end of a fray and the beginning of a feast Fits a dull fighter and a keen guest."

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"If I do, fillip me with a three-man beetle."

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"The blood more stirs To rouse a lion than to start a hare!"

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"So shaken as we are, so wan with care."

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"O, I have passed a miserable night, So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams, That, as I am a Christian faithful man, I would not spend another such a night, Though 't were to buy a world of happy days."

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"Let the end try the man."

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"A joint of mutton, and any pretty little tiny kickshaws, tell William cook."

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"His nose was as sharp as a pen, and a' babbled of green fields."

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"The ripest fruit first falls."

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"By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks."

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"Like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring: when a' was naked, he was, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife."

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"I 'll tickle your catastrophe."

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"I know a trick worth two of that."

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"We have heard the chimes at midnight."

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"Fires the proud tops of the eastern pines."

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"'T is my vocation, Hal; 't is no sin for a man to labour in his vocation."

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"A Corinthian, a lad of mettle, a good boy."

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"And nothing can we call our own but death And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings."

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"Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!"

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"The cankers of a calm world and a long peace."

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"Company, villanous company, hath been the spoil of me."

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"A parlous boy."

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"But in the way of bargain, mark ye me, I 'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair."

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"A plague of sighing and grief! It blows a man up like a bladder."

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"The daintiest last, to make the end most sweet."

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"Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor."

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"Accommodated; that is, when a man is, as they say, accommodated; or when a man is, being, whereby a' may be thought to be accommodated,--which is an excellent thing."

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"I am a Jew else, an Ebrew Jew."

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"If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work."

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"Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm off from an anointed king."

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"All plumed like estridges that with the wind Baited like eagles having lately bathed; Glittering in golden coats, like images; As full of spirit as the month of May, And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer."

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"In King Cambyses' vein."

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"Three misbegotten knaves in Kendal green."

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"We that are in the vaward of our youth."

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"He hath eaten me out of house and home."

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"If he be not fellow with the best king, thou shalt find the best king of good fellows."

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"He was indeed the glass Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves."

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"As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious."

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"Commit The oldest sins the newest kind of ways."

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"Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all; all shall die. How a good yoke of bullocks at Stamford fair?"

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"His cares are now all ended."

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"Past and to come seems best; things present worst."

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"I may justly say, with the hook-nosed fellow of Rome, "I came, saw, and overcame.""

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"O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention!"

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