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Slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession.
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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William Shakspere
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Now stand you on the top of happy hours, And many maiden gardens yet unset, With virtuous wish would bear you living flowers, Much liker than your painted counterfeit: So should the lines of life that life repair Which this, Time's pencil, or my pupil pen Neither in inward worth nor outward fair Can make you live your self in eyes of men.
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Officers, what offence have these men done? DOGBERRY Marry, sir, they have committed false report moreover, they have spoken untruths secondarily, they are slanders sixth and lastly, they have belied a lady thirdly, they have verified unjust things and, to conclude, they are lying knaves.
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And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns.
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The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea.
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Where shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done, when the battle 's lost and won
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Well, I must be patient there is no fettering of authority.
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Vile worm, thou wast o'erlook'd even in thy birth.
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In maiden meditation, fancy free.
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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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Though music oft hath such a charm to make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
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When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
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Thrust your head into the public street, to gaze on Christian fools with varnish'd faces.
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O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
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If her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her, she would infect to the north star!
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The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it.
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To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder, In the most terrible and nimble stroke Of quick, cross lightning.
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Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie.
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They do not abuse the king that flatter him. For flattery is the bellows blows up sin The thing the which is flattered, but a spark To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing.
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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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That is my home of love: if I have ranged, Like him that travels I return again, Just to the time, not with the time exchanged.
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