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«He hath not fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
as it were, bred, dainties, ink
«We must not make a scarecrow of the law,Setting it up to fear the birds of prey,And let it keep one shape till custom make itTheir perch, and not their terror.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
bird of prey, custom-make, laws and customs, perch, perched, perches, prey, scarecrow, scarecrows, The Birds, The Scarecrow
«Stay we no longer, dreaming of renown, But sound the trumpets, and about our task»
«Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot, But he'll remember with advantages What feats he did that day»
«O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
favored, handsome, ill-favored, pounds, three hundred, vile
«The time is out of joint. O cursed spite that ever I was born to set it right!»
«And I did laugh sans intermission an hour by his dial. O noble fool, a worthy fool -- motley's the only wear.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
dial, dials, intermission, intermissions, motley, noble, SANS, The Dial, worthy
«Everything that gristles is not gold.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Gold
| Keywords:
gristle, gristles
«It provokes the desire but it take away the performance.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
performance, provokes, take away
«Pray, do not mock me:I am a very foolish fond old man,Fourscore and upward, not an hour more, or less:And, to deal plainly,I fear I am not in my perfect mind.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
fond, fourscore, Less Than Perfect, mock, more or less, old man, plainly, upward
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