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How well he's read, to reason against reading!
William Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare
Age: 51 †
Born: 1564
Born: April 26
Died: 1616
Died: April 23
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Stratford-upon-Avon
Warwickshire
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The Bard of Avon
William Shakspere
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William Shake‐ſpeare
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Graze on my lips and if those hills be dry, stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.
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'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
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A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward!
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A woman that is like a German clock, Still a-repairing, ever out of frame, And never going aright, being a watch, But being watched that it may still go right!
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That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation, And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges, In heaps and piles of ruin.
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I will make thee think thy swan a crow.
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Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.
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And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!
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Nay, do not think I flatter. For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flattered?
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O madam, my old heart is cracked, it's cracked!
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When law can do no right, Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.
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But as the unthought-on accident is guilty To what we wildly do, so we profess Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies Of every wind that blows.
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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
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His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes: With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet, arise.
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