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William Shakespeare

Once more unto the breach, dear friends

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead.

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The Tempest

like one who having into truth, by telling of it

Prospero:
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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Macbeth

There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face

There’s no art
To find the mind’s construction in the face

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As You Like It

My age is as a lusty winter, frosty, but kindly.

My age is as a lusty winter, frosty, but kindly.

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Much Ado About Nothing

The count is neither sad, nor sick, nor merry, nor well; but civil count, civil as an orange, and something of that jealous complexion.

Beatrice: The count is neither sad, nor sick, nor merry, nor well; but civil count, civil as an orange, and something of that jealous complexion.

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Much Ado About Nothing

In mine eye she is the sweetest lady that ever I looked on.

CLAUDIO: In mine eye she is the sweetest lady that ever I looked on.

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Julius Caesar

Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar!

Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar!

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Othello

Men should be what they seem,

Men should be what they seem,
Or those that be not,
Would they might seem none!

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The Merchant of Venice

Thus hath the candle singed the moth.

Thus hath the candle singed the moth.

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The Tempest

my library was dukedom large enough

Prospero:
my library
Was dukedom large enough

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Sonnets

Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,

Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st;
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

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Measure for Measure

Thou hast nor youth nor age, but, as it were, an after-diner’s sleep, dreaming on both.

Thou hast nor youth nor age, but, as it were, an after-diner’s sleep, dreaming on both.

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Much Ado About Nothing

Your silence most offends me, and to be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour.

Don Pedro: Your silence most offends me, and to be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour.
Beatrice: No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there was a star danced, and under that was I born.

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Much Ado About Nothing

Is’t come to this? In faith, hath not the world one man but he will wear his cap with suspicion? Shall I never see a bachelor of three-score again?

BENEDICK: Is’t come to this? In faith, hath not the world one man but he will wear his cap with suspicion? Shall I never see a bachelor of three-score again?

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Hamlet

Frailty, thy name is woman!

Frailty, thy name is woman!

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Macbeth

By the pricking of my thumbs,

By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.

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The Merchant of Venice

And I beseech you,

And I beseech you,
Wrest once the law to your authority,
To do a great right, do a little wrong,
And curb this cruel devil of his will.

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Much Ado About Nothing

You always end with a jade’s trick. I know you of old.

Beatrice: You always end with a jade’s trick. I know you of old.

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The Tempest

Ariel:

Ariel:
I will be correspondent to command,
And do my spiriting gently.

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A Midsummer Night's Dream

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

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Macbeth

She should have died hereafter- there would have been time for such a thing.

She should have died hereafter- there would have been time for such a thing.

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Much Ado About Nothing

O Lord, my lord, if they were but a week married, they would talk themselves mad.

Leonato: O Lord, my lord, if they were but a week married, they would talk themselves mad.

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Much Ado About Nothing

No, not till a hot January.

BEATRICE: No, not till a hot January.

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Hamlet

that is the question

To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?

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Richard III

Off with his head!

Off with his head!