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William Shakespeare Quotes

«Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?»
«What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet»
«Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools.»
«No profit grows where no pleasure is taken; In brief, sir, study what you most affect»
«If I do dream, would all my wealth would wake me! If I do wake, some planet strike me down, that I may slumber in eternal sleep!»
«I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct.»
«That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold.»
«I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman»
«The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn»
«Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.»