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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Greatest English dramatist & poet [more author details]

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Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.: William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 1 scene 1
I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, because I think him so.: William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 1 scene 2
O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day!: William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 1 scene 3
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O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple.: William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 2 scene 1
That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.: William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 3 scene 1
Come not within the measure of my wrath.: William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 5 scene 4
How use doth breed a habit in a man!: William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 5 scene 4
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What's gone and what's past help Should be past grief.: William Shakespeare, "The Winter's Tale", Act 3 scene 2
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Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.: William Shakespeare, "Timon of Athens", Act 3 scene 1
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We have seen better days.: William Shakespeare, "Timon of Athens", Act 4 scene 2
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.: William Shakespeare, "Titus Andronicus", Act 1 scene 2
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The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it.: William Shakespeare, "Troilus and Cressida", Act 4 scene 5
If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!: William Shakespeare, "Twelfth Night", Act 1 scene 1
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If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.: William Shakespeare, "Twelfth Night", Act 3 scene 4
Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.: William Shakespeare, 'Hamlet,' Act I, Scene iii
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.: William Shakespeare, 'Hamlet,' Act I, Scene iii
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry [economy].: William Shakespeare, 'Hamlet,' Act I, Scene iii
This above all: to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day; Thou canst not then be false to any man.: William Shakespeare, 'Hamlet,' Act I, Scene iii
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.: William Shakespeare, 'King Henry IV part I'
Have more than thou showest; Speak less than thou knowest.: William Shakespeare, 'King Lear,' Act I, Scene iv

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