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- Though fortunes malice overthrow my state, my mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Henry VI, Part III, Act IV, sc. 3
- Fortune, that arrant whore, ne'er turns the key to the poor.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), King Lear, Act II, sc. 4
- The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Merchant of Venice, Act I, sc. 3
- O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil!
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Othello, Act II, sc. 3
- [Drink] provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act II, sc. 3
- O God, that man should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Othello, Act II, sc. 3
- 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
- Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
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