"Tetchy and wayward."

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"Famine is in thy cheeks."

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"My man 's as true as steel."

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"And give to dust that is a little gilt More laud than gilt o'er-dusted."

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"Stabbed with a white wench's black eye."

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"If you have writ your annals true, 't is there That, like an eagle in a dove-cote, I Flutter'd your Volscians in Corioli: Alone I did it. Boy!"

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"Was ever book containing such vile matter So fairly bound? O, that deceit should dwell In such a gorgeous palace!"

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"One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish."

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"By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers."

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"'T is a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend."

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"Thank me no thanks, nor proud me no prouds."

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"But, for my own part, it was Greek to me."

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"He jests at scars that never felt a wound. But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."

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"Taking the measure of an unmade grave."

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"Give me another horse: bind up my wounds."

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"His nature is too noble for the world: He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for 's power to thunder."

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"An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told."

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"Meagre were his looks, Sharp misery had worn him to the bones."

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"True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings."

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"That book in many's eyes doth share the glory That in gold clasps locks in the golden story."

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"Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim, When King Cophetua loved the beggar maid!"

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"Et tu, Brute!"

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"Ye gods, it doth amaze me A man of such a feeble temper should So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone."

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"But I am constant as the northern star, Of whose true-fix'd and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament."

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"Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace!"

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"And sleep in dull cold marble."

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"Even in the afternoon of her best days."

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"His heart and hand both open and both free; For what he has he gives, what thinks he shows; Yet gives he not till judgment guide his bounty."

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"A name unmusical to the Volscians' ears, And harsh in sound to thine."

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"Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself."

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"Help me, Cassius, or I sink!"

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"Nature teaches beasts to know their friends."

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"Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water."

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"All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one."

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"Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be Ere one can say, "It lightens.""

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"'T is better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow."

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"One writ with me in sour misfortune's book."

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"She is a woman, therefore may be woo'd; She is a woman, therefore may be won; She is Lavinia, therefore must be loved. What, man! more water glideth by the mill Than wots the miller of; and easy it is Of a cut loaf to steal a shive."

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"Thy old groans ring yet in my ancient ears."

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"We have seen better days."

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"And then to breakfast with What appetite you have."

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"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."

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"O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?"

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"Her beauty makes This vault a feasting presence full of light."

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"'T is well said again, And 't is a kind of good deed to say well: And yet words are no deeds."

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"But when I tell him he hates flatterers, He says he does, being then most flattered."

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"When beggars die, there are no comets seen; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes."

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"Shall have the chinks."

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"Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops."

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"At lovers' perjuries, They say, Jove laughs."

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