"O fie, Miss, you must not kiss and tell."
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Love for Love by William Congreve
"I have not slept one wink."
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Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
"I thought her
As chaste as unsunned snow."
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Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
"Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust."
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Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
"Slander,
Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue
Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath,
Rides on the posting winds and doth belie
All corners of the world."
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Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
We must pass over a part of Mrs. Rebecca Crawley's biography with that lightness and delicacy which the world demands--the moral world, that has, perhaps, no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
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Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be had in listening to fine music, as in looking at the stars in the sky, or at a beautiful landscape or picture, was a benefit for which we might thank Heaven as sincerely as for any other worldly blessing.
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Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Anger's my meat; I sup upon myself,
And so shall starve with feeding.
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Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
Action is eloquence.
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Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
The mutable, rank-scented many . . .
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Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
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