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O, how full of briers is this working-day world!



Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.



Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself are much condemned to have an itching palm.



Art made tongue-tied by authority.



Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.



We know what we are, but know not what we may be.



Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them



What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god -- the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!



Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

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For there was never yet a philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.



Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth.



We know what we are, but know not what we may be.



How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.



I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream.