"I cannot tell what the dickens his name is."
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The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
"Why, then the world's mine oyster. Which I with sword will open."
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The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
"Strong reasons makes strong actions."
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King John by William Shakespeare
"Heaven take my soul, and England keep my bones!"
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King John by William Shakespeare
"How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Make deeds ill done!"
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King John by William Shakespeare
"Grief fills the room up of my absent child,
Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me."
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King John by William Shakespeare
"Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man;"
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King John by William Shakespeare
"Bell, book, and candle, shall not drive me back,
When gold and silver becks me to come on."
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King John by William Shakespeare
It was this willingness to find poetry in things around them that kept his life and Isabel's fresh, and they taught their children the secret of their elixir.
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Their Wedding Journey by William Dean Howells
The knowledge of your helplessness in any circumstances is so perfect that it begets a sense of irresponsibility, almost of security; and as you drowse upon the pallet of the sleeping car, and feel yourself hurled forward through the obscurity, you are almost thankful that you can do nothing, for it is upon this condition only that you can endure it; and some such condition as this, I suppose, accounts for many heroic facts in the world.
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Their Wedding Journey by William Dean Howells
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