"Still harping on my daughter."

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"I do not set my life at a pin's fee."

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"Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?"

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"To hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature."

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"Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping?"

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"How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!"

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"There is something in this more than natural, if philosophy could find it out."

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"Report me and my cause aright."

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"The bravery of his grief did put me Into a towering passion."

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"'T were to consider too curiously, to consider so."

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"On fortune's cap we are not the very button."

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"At your age The hey-day in the blood is tame, it 's humble."

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"There 's rosemary, that 's for remembrance; . . . and there is pansies, that 's for thoughts."

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"Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides."

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"What imports the nomination of this gentleman?"

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"Dead, for a ducat, dead!"

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"Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't."

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"Unpack my heart with words, And fall a-cursing, like a very drab."

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"By and by is easily said."

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"Our wills and fates do so contrary run That our devices still are overthrown."

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"The play, I remember, pleased not the million; 't was caviare to the general."

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"The time is out of joint: O cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right!"

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"For, O, for, O, the hobby-horse is forgot."

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"Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes."

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"When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul Lends the tongue vows."

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"How is 't with you, That you do bend your eye on vacancy?"

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"I want that glib and oily art, To speak and purpose not."

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"Nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will."

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"I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair."

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"Hor. There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave To tell us this."

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"One woe doth tread upon another's heel, So fast they follow."

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"Confess yourself to heaven; Repent what 's past; avoid what is to come."

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"I have shot mine arrow o'er the house, And hurt my brother."

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"Cudgel thy brains no more about it."

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"False as dicers' oaths."

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"Now the king drinks to Hamlet."

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"It will discourse most eloquent music."

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"It did me yeoman's service."

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"'T is not so above; There is no shuffling, there the action lies In his true nature."

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"Every man has business and desire, Such as it is."

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"There 's such divinity doth hedge a king, That treason can but peep to what it would."

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"That we would do, We should do when we would."

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"Striving to better, oft we mar what 's well."

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"Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature."

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"They are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.--Something too much of this."

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"My fate cries out, And makes each petty artery in this body As hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve."

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"Art thou there, truepenny? Come on--you hear this fellow in the cellarage."

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"To be honest as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand."

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"I thought thy bride-bed to have deck'd, sweet maid, And not have strew'd thy grave."

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"Nay, an thou 'lt mouth, I 'll rant as well as thou."

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