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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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Divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth.
The tears live in an onion that should water this sorrow.
All men's faces are true, whatsome'er their hands are.
And sheath'd their swords for lack of argument.
Henry V (1599)
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.
Macbeth (1605)
That roars so loud and thunders in the index.
How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
Julius Caesar (1599)
If music be the food of love, play on.
Twelfth Night (1601)
A good old man, sir: he will be talking, as they say, When the age is in, the wit is out.
Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
All places that the eye of heaven visits,
Richard II (1595)
Good luck lies in odd numbers * * * They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.
Now, the melancholy god protect thee; and the tailor make thy doublet of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is a very opal.
She in beauty, education, blood,
King John (1598)
Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try.
Every subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's soul is his own.
Henry V (1599)
For some must watch, while some must sleep:
The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne,
Antony and Cleopatra (1606)
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