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- You shall more command with years than with your weapons.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Othello, Act I, sc. 2
- An old man is twice a child.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act II, sc. 2
- The old folk, time's doting chronicles.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Henry IV, Part II, Act IV, sc. 4
- My age is as a lusty winter, frosty, but kindly.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), As You Like It, Act II, sc.3
- Thou hast nor youth nor age, but, as it were, an after-dinner's sleep, dreaming on both.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Measure for Measure, Act III, sc.1
- I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, and falls on the other.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act I, sc. 7
- Lowliness is young ambition's ladder,
Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Julius Caesar, Act II, sc.1
- Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Antony and Cleopatra, Act III, sc.1
- Ornament is but the guiled shore to a most dangerous sea.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Merchant of Venice, Act III, sc. 2
- I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet CXLVII
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