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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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There's no art
Macbeth (1605)
God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to the vice of lying!
He that has a house to put's head in has a good head-piece.
King Lear (1608)
There's husbandry in heaven;
Macbeth (1605)
The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.
Troilus and Cressida (1602)
Worthy fellows, and like to prove most sinewy sword-men.
'Fore God, you have here a goodly dwelling and a rich.
Very good orators, when they are out, they will spit.
I'll be damned for never a king's son in Christendom.
They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.
Richard II (1595)
Good reasons must, of force, give place to better.
Julius Cæsar (1599)
An two men ride of a horse, one must ride behind.
Talk with a man out at a window—a proper saying.
Every one can master a grief but he that has it.
Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth.
A proper man as one shall see in a summer's day.
That truth should be silent I had almost forgot.
But wonder on, till truth make all things plain.
Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek.
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