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  • "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
  • "A friend i'the court is better than a penny in purse."
  • "A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age."
  • "A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser."
  • "Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment."
  • "Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!"
  • "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages."
  • "Ambition should be made of sterner stuff."
  • "An overflow of good converts to bad."
  • "And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse."
  • "And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."
  • "As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport."
  • "As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him."
  • "As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words."
  • "Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."
  • "Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"
  • "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery."
  • "Better a witty fool than a foolish wit."
  • "Better three hours too soon than a minute too late."
  • "Boldness be my friend."
  • "Brevity is the soul of wit."
  • "But men are men; the best sometimes forget."
  • "But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes."
  • "By that sin fell the angels."
  • "Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong." "
  • "Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness."
  • "Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once."
  • "Death is a fearful thing."
  • "Desire of having is the sin of covetousness."
  • "Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct."
  • "Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above."
  • "Expectation is the root of all heartache."
  • "Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them."
  • "False face must hide what the false heart doth know."
  • "Farewell, fair cruelty."
  • "Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones."
  • "For I can raise no money by vile means."
  • "For my part, it was Greek to me."
  • "Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered."
  • "Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."



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