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Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I am loved of all ladies, only you excepted: and I would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard heart; for, truly, I love none. Beatrice: A dear happiness to women: they would else have been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God and my cold blood, I am of your humour for that: I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me. -Much Ado About Nothing

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O good old man! how well in thee appears
The constant service of the antique world,
When service sweat for duty, not for meed!
Thou art not for the fashion of these times,
Where none will sweat but for promotion.

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Give you a reason on compulsion! if reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I.

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Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner, Honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire.

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Rest you fair, good signior;
Your worship was the last man in our mouths.

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'Tis my vocation, Hal; 'tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation.

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See the minutes, how they run,
How many make the hour full complete;
How many hours bring about the day;
How many days will finish up the year;
How many years a mortal man may live.

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Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.

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I cannot draw a cart, nor eat dried oats;
If it be man's work, I'll do't.

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I'll never
Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand
As is a man were author of himself
And knew no other kin.

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What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit!

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O powerful love, that in some respects makes a beast a man, in some other, a man a beast.

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I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more is none.

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Give me that man
That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him
In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart,
As I do thee.

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Indeed, sir, he that sleeps feels not the toothache; but a man that were to sleep your sleep, and a hangman to help him to bed, I think he would change places with his officer; for look you, sir, you know not which way you shall go.

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The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all this time there was not any man died in his own person,
videlicet, in a love-cause.

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The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils;
The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
And his affections dark as Erebus:
Let no such man be trusted.

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He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him.

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Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

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There's place and means for every man alive.

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I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man.

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Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man

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No man means evil but the devil, and we shall know him by his horns.

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All that I have to say, is, to tell you that the lanthorn is the moon; I, the man in the moon; this thorn-bush, my thorn-bush; and this dog, my dog.

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O, what may man within him hide,
Though angel on the outward side!

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