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1564–1616 England
William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised) – 23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.
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An old rusty sword ta’en out of the town armoury, with a broken hilt, and chapeless; with two broken points.
Let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
Death makes no conquest of this conqueror:
Richard III (1591)
And seeing ignorance is the curse of God,
When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths.
Cymbeline (1611)
My meaning in saying he is a good man is to have you understand me that he is sufficient.
This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit,
He will come to her in yellow stockings, and 'tis a color she abhors; and cross-gartered, a fashion she detests.
In nature there's no blemish but the mind;
A child of our grandmother Eve, a female; or, for thy more sweet understanding, a woman.
'Tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve.
Romeo and Juliet (1597)
In such a time as this it is not meet
Julius Cæsar (1599)
Farewell, Monsieur Traveller: look you lisp and wear strange suits, disable all the benefits of your own country.
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:
He hath indeed better bettered expectation than you must expect of me to tell you how.
Not fearing death, nor shrinking for distress,
He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block.
Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool nowhere but in 's own house.
'Tis pity bounty had not eyes behind,
We must not stint
Henry VIII (1613)
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