"But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honoured in the breach than the observance."

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"For 't is the sport to have the enginer Hoist with his own petar."

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"The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers!"

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"As if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion."

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"While memory holds a seat In this distracted globe. Remember thee! Yea, from the table of my memory I 'll wipe away all trivial fond records."

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"The play 's the thing Wherein I 'll catch the conscience of the king."

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"1 Clo. Ay, marry, is 't; crowner's quest law."

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"The phrase would be more german to the matter, if we could carry cannon by our sides."

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"I must be cruel, only to be kind: Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind."

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"Abuses me to damn me."

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"Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, And recks not his own rede."

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"A very riband in the cap of youth."

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"Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love."

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"Lay her i' the earth: And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring!"

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"Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man As e'er my conversation coped withal."

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"I know a hawk from a handsaw."

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"Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, Unhousell'd, disappointed, unaneled, No reckoning made, but sent to my account With all my imperfections on my head."

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"Nature is fine in love, and where 't is fine, It sends some precious instance of itself After the thing it loves."

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"But, soft! methinks I scent the morning air; Brief let me be. Sleeping within my orchard, My custom always of the afternoon."

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"O Jephthah, judge of Israel, what a treasure hadst thou!"

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"Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, Bear 't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man."

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"They fool me to the top of my bent."

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"To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day, All in the morning betime."

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"Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused."

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"To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till we find it stopping a bung-hole?"

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"Bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word; which madness Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace, Lay not that flattering unction to your soul."

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"Why may not that be the skull of a lawyer? Where be his quiddities now, his quillets, his cases, his tenures, and his tricks?"

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"And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed That roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf."

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"Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence."

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"For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ."

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"Look here, upon this picture, and on this, The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. See, what a grace was seated on this brow: Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill,-- A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man."

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"Though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve."

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"I am myself indifferent honest."

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"Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks."

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"O, woe is me, To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!"

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"A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm."

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"This is the very ecstasy of love."

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"That he is mad, 't is true: 't is true 't is pity; And pity 't is 't is true."

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"O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!"

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"And my imaginations are as foul As Vulcan's stithy."

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"About some act That has no relish of salvation in 't."

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"One that was a woman, sir; but, rest her soul, she 's dead."

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"With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May."

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"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions."

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"A cutpurse of the empire and the rule, That from a shelf the precious diadem stole, And put it in his pocket!"

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"What act That roars so loud, and thunders in the index?"

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"How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us."

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"Mend your speech a little, Lest it may mar your fortunes."

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"Nothing will come of nothing."

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"Not to speak it profanely."

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