"Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news hath but a losing office, and his tongue sounds ever after as a sullen bell, rememb'red tolling a departing friend."
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Henry IV, Part Two by William Shakespeare
"Care I for the limb, the thews, the stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man! Give me the spirit, Master Shallow."
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Henry IV, Part Two by William Shakespeare
"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."
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Henry IV, Part Two by William Shakespeare
"Company, villanous company, hath been the spoil of me."
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Henry IV, Part One by William Shakespeare
"Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth in strange eruptions."
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Henry IV, Part One by William Shakespeare
"Falstaff sweats to death and lards the lean earth as he walks along."
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Henry IV, Part One by William Shakespeare
"Necessity's sharp pinch!"
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King Lear by William Shakespeare
"How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!"
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King Lear by William Shakespeare
"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once."
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Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
"Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber."
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Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
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