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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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You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass.
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Nay, an thou'lt mouth,
I'll rant as well as thou.
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There's ne'er a villain dwelling in all Denmark, But he's an arrant knave.
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Marry, this is miching mallecho; it means mischief.
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Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air,
The extravagant and erring spirit hies
To his confine.
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Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell!
I took thee for thy better.
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The curse of marriage
That we can call these delicate creatures ours
And not their appetites!
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Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,
Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,
And recks not his own rede.
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O! my offense is rank, it smells to heaven;
It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't;
A brother's murder!
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How all occasions do inform against me,
And spur my dull revenge! What is a man,
If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.
Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unus'd.
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I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod.
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O! that this too too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew;
Or that the Everlasting had not fixed
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter!
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Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature.
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And then it started like a guilty thing
Upon a fearful summons.
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Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine ownself be true.
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
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The ears are senseless that should give us hearing,
To tell him his commandment is fulfilled,
That Rosencrantz and Guildernstern are dead.
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The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.
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A man that fortune's buffets and rewards
Hast ta'en with equal thanks.
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I once did hold it, as our statists do,
A baseness to write fair.
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What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unused.
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To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bung-hole?
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Polonius:
Do you know me, my lord?
Hamlet:
Excellent well; you are a fishmonger.
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He is dead and gone, lady,
He is dead and gone,
At his head a grass-green turf;
At his heels a stone.
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The glowworm shows the matin to be near,
And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
William Shakespeare
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Born:
April 26, 1564
Died:
April 23, 1616
(aged 51)
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