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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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For they say, if money go before, all ways do lie open.
Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them.
Othello (1603)
The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense.
'Tis the best brine a maiden can season her praise in.
A little snow, tumbled about, anon becomes a mountain.
King John (1598)
A table full of welcome makes scarce one dainty dish.
What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom?
Macbeth (1605)
Let me have no lying; it becomes none but tradesmen.
The Winter's Tale (1611)
What, would'st thou have a serpent sting thee twice?
Come, gentle night, come, loving, blackbrow'd night.
Romeo and Juliet (1597)
Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing.
Your wit's too hot, it speeds too fast, 'twill tire.
He doth, indeed, show some sparks that are like wit.
The elegancy, facility, and golden cadence of poesy.
Past and to come seems best; things present, worst.
If my gossip Report be an honest woman of her word.
Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
Stones have been known to move and trees to speak.
Macbeth (1605)
For young hot colts being rag'd, do rage the more.
Richard II (1595)
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