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He's in Arthur's bosom, if ever man went to Arthur's bosom.

William Shakespeare
What have we here? a man or a fish? dead or alive? A fish: he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fishlike smell; a kind of not of the newest poor-John. A strange fish!

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Let not women's weapons, waterdrops,
Stain my man's cheeks!

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An old man, broken with the storms of state
Is come to lay his weary bones among ye;
Give him a little earth for charity.

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Milk-livered man,
That bear'st a cheek for blows, a head for wrongs;
Who hast not in thy brows an eye discerning
Thine honor from thy suffering; [that not know'st
Fools do those villains pity who are punished
Ere they have done their mischief. Where's thy drum?
France spreads his banners in our noiseless land,
With plumed helm thy state begins to threat,
Whilst thou, a moral fool, sits still and cries
'Alack, why does he so?']

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Bid the dishonest man mend himself; if he mend, he is no longer dishonest.

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When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again.

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He is the half part of a blessed man,
Left to be finished by such a she;
And she a fair divided excellence,
Whose fullness of perfection lies in him.

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'Ban, 'Ban, Ca-Caliban,
Has a new master—Get a new man.

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Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping?

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Then know, that I have little wealth to lose. A man I am, crossed with adversity; My riches are these poor habiliments, Of which if you should here disfurnish me, You take the sum and substance that I have.

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O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible,
As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple!

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But indeed an old religious uncle of mine taught me to speak, who was in his youth an inland man; one that knew courtship too well, for there he fell in love. I have heard him read many lectures against it; and I thank God I am not a woman, to be touched with so many giddy offenses as he hath generally taxed their whole sex withal.

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This is a slight unmeritable man,
Meet to be sent on errands.

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Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

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Since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any purpose that
the world can say against it; and therefore never floutat me for what I have said against it; for man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.

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A man whose blood
Is very snow-broth; one who never feels
The wanton stings and motions of the sense.

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Obey thy parents, keep thy word justly; swear not; commit not with man's sworn spouse; set not thy sweet heart on proud array. * * * Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy pen from lenders' books.

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Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?

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Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.

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So Judas did to Christ: but he, in twelve,
Found truth in all but one; I, in twelve thousand, none.
God save the king! Will no man say, amen?

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O! that a man might know The end of this day's business, ere it come.

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This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practise As full of labour as a wise man's art For folly that he wisely shows is fit; But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit.

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So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.

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Help, master, help! here's a fish hangs in the net, like a poor man's right in the law; 'twill hardly come out.

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