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Greatest scandal waits on greatest state.
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
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Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. It is engend'red in the eyes, With gazing fed, and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies.
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Night's candles have burned out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops. Hope tinged with melancholy - like life.
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For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings.
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O hell! to choose love with another's eye.
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Constant you are, But yet a woman and for secrecy, No lady closer for I well believe Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know.
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Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit All with me's meet that I can fashion fit.
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You had measured how long a fool you were upon the ground.
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Hamlet: Lady, shall I lie in your lap? Ophelia: No, my lord. Hamlet: DId you think I meant country matters? Ophelia: I think nothing, my lord. Hamlet: That's a fair thought to lie between maids' legs. Ophelia: What is, my lord? Hamlet: Nothing.
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Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?
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Being of no power to make his wishes good: His promises fly so beyond his state That what he speaks is all in debt he owes For every word.
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If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep, My dreams presage some joyful news at hand. My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne, And all this day an unaccustomed spirit Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.
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He that keeps not crust nor crum Weary of all, shall want some.
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So, you are very welcome to our house. It must appear in other ways than words, Therefore, I scant this breathing courtesy.
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For 'tis the sport to have the engineerHoist with his own petard.
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The daintiest last, to make the end most sweet.
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Tired with all these, for restful death I cry.
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Coal-black is better than another hue In that it scorns to bear another hue For all the water in the ocean Can never turn the swan's black legs to white, Although she lave them hourly in the flood.
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But I will be, A bridegroom in my death, and run into't As to a lover's bed.
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So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
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O, the blood more stirs To rouse a lion than to start a hare!
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