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- To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), King John, Act IV, sc. 2
- There's no bottom, none, in my voluptuousness: Your wives, your daughters, your matrons and your maids, could not fill up the cistern of my lust.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act IV, sc. 3
- Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice: Then must you speak of one that loved not wisely but too well.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Othello, Act V, sc. 2
- It would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and comes to all sorts of conclusions.
- Malcolm Gladwell
- Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Measure for Measure, Act I, sc.4
- No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, the marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, become them with one half so good a grace as mercy does.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Measure for Measure, Act II, sc. 2
- There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter you till death.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Measure for Measure, Act III, sc.1
- O, that this too too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act I, sc. 2
- How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes!
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), As You Like It, Act V, sc.2
- There is no fettering of authority.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), All's Well that Ends Well, Act II, sc. 3
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