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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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Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace.
Richard III (1591)
Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.
She's quick; the child brags in her belly already.
Yon towers, whose wanton tops do buss the clouds.
Troilus and Cressida (1602)
Past and to come seem best; things present worst.
'Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so.
The common curse of mankind,—folly and ignorance.
The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon!
Macbeth (1606)
See where she comes, apparell'd like the spring.
A coward, a most devout coward, religious in it.
The grass stoops not, she treads on it so light.
Venus and Adonis (1593)
Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure.
Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep.
Henry V (1599)
Many wearing rapiers are afraid of goose-quills.
In limited professions there's boundless theft.
Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure.
King Lear (1608)
When the sun sets, who doth not look for night?
Richard III (1591)
Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar?
King Lear (1608)
Hoy-day, what a sweep of vanity comes this way!
Condemned into everlasting redemption for this.
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