The nature of bad news infects the teller.
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Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.
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Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
"Remuneration! O, that's the Latin word for three farthings."
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Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare
"He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument."
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Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare
"Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye, not uttered by base sale of chapmen's tongues."
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Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare
"The end crowns all; and that old common arbitrator, Time, will one day end it."
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Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare
"'Tis mad idolatry to make the service greater than the god . . . "
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Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare
"Men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is."
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Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare
"O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, that thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, and steep my senses in forgetfulness?"
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Henry IV, Part Two by William Shakespeare
"Well, thus we play the fools with the time, and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us."
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Henry IV, Part Two by William Shakespeare
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