William Shakespeare is a renowned Playwright and an English Poet and is the most eminent writers of all. This famous poet was born on 26 April 1564 and died on 23 April 1616. He has spent all his life writing plays and poems and entertaining people through his work. He has written 38 remarkable plays, 158 sonnets, 2 long narrative poems and several others worth reading poems which enlightens one. He is been titled as “Bard of Avon”. Shakespeare has been brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon and married at the age of 18 to Anne Hathaway and had three children Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth written by him is regarded as some of the finest writings written by him.
Signature of William Shakespeare:
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,
We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;
But were we burdened with like weight of pain,
As much or more we should ourselves complain.
William Shakespeare
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare
And since you know you cannot see yourself,
so well as by reflection, I, your glass,
will modestly discover to yourself,
that of yourself which you yet know not of.
William Shakespeare
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
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And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With old odd ends, stol’n forth of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
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A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
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Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
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Absence from those we love is self from self – a deadly banishment.
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Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
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Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!
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Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
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An overflow of good converts to bad.
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Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
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God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty!
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He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.
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How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees.
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As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
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And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
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How use doth breed a habit in a man.
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As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
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I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true ‘The empty vessel makes the greatest sound’.
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As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
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I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
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Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
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I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.
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Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
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Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.
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Boldness be my friend.
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In a false quarrel there is no true valour.
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Brevity is the soul of wit.
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In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.
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But men are men; the best sometimes forget.
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When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain
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But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.
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I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.
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By that sin fell the angels.
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Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
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Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
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Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
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False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
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Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast
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Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
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For my part, it was Greek to me.
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Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.
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Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
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For I can raise no money by vile means.
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Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
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Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
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Give thy thoughts no tongue.
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Exceeds man’s might: that dwells with the gods above.
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God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
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Having nothing, nothing can he lose.
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Farewell, fair cruelty.
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He that loves to be flattered is worthy o’ the flatterer.
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How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good dead in a naughty world.
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‘Tis best to weigh The enemy more mighty than he seems.
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How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!
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I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
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I dote on his very absence.
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How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
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I like not fair terms and a villain’s mind.
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In a false quarrel there is no true valor.
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I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
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I will praise any man that will praise me.
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Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
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Expectation is the root of all heartache.
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I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
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I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
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I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
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I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.
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I bear a charmed life.
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If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.
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I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
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If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
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If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
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Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
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It is a wise father that knows his own child.
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It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
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Love is too young to know what conscience is.
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I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.
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My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
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I was adored once too.
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It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
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It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.
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Lawless are they that make their wills their law.
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Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
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In time we hate that which we often fear.
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Let no such man be trusted.
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Nothing can come of nothing.
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If music be the food of love, play on.
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Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
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O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
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Now is the winter of our discontent.
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Listen to many, speak to a few.
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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
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Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
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Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
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Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
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Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
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Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
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Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
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My pride fell with my fortunes.
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Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
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Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
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No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.
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Men’s vows are women’s traitors!
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O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
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No legacy is so rich as honesty.
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Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.
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Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.
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O, had I but followed the arts!
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
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Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
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Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.
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Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
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Parting is such sweet sorrow.
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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
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O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
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Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
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Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
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Speak low, if you speak love.
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Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
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Such as we are made of, such we be.
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The attempt and not the deed confounds us.
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The course of true love never did run smooth.
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Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
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The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
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Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.
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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
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The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
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Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
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The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.
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The golden age is before us, not behind us.
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The object of art is to give life a shape.
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The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch, which hurts and is desired.
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The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.
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The valiant never taste of death but once.
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The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
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The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
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There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
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The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
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There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.
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There is no darkness but ignorance.
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Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
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There’s many a man has more hair than wit.
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Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.
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There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.
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They do not love that do not show their love.
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‘Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.
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‘Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
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Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
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Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
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To do a great right do a little wrong.
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This above all; to thine own self be true.
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To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
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What’s done can’t be undone.
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Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
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We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
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Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
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To be, or not to be: that is the question.
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What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
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We are time’s subjects, and time bids be gone.
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What is past is prologue.
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What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he’s an enemy to mankind.
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Well, if Fortune be a woman, she’s a good wench for this gear.
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