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The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.
Author: William Shakespeare
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He doth nothing but talk of his horse. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.
Author: William Shakespeare
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God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.
Author: William Shakespeare
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When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.
Author: William Shakespeare
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I dote on his very absence. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.
Author: William Shakespeare
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My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.
Author: William Shakespeare
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Ships are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.
Author: William Shakespeare
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I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you. What news on the Rialto? -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.
Author: William Shakespeare
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I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. He hates our sacred nation, and he rails, Even there where merchants most do congregate. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.
Author: William Shakespeare
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The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.
Author: William Shakespeare
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A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath! -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.
Author: William Shakespeare
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Many a time and oft In the Rialto you have rated me. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.
Author: William Shakespeare
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For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.
Author: William Shakespeare
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You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.
Author: William Shakespeare
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Shall I bend low, and in a bondman's key, With bated breath and whispering humbleness. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.
Author: William Shakespeare
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For when did friendship take A breed for barren metal of his friend? -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.
Author: William Shakespeare
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O father Abram! what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect The thoughts of others! -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.
Author: William Shakespeare
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Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadow'd livery of the burnish'd sun. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 1.
Author: William Shakespeare
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The young gentleman, according to Fates and Destinies and such odd sayings, the Sisters Three and such branches of learning, is indeed deceased; or, as you would say in plain terms, gone to heaven. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.
Author: William Shakespeare
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The very staff of my age, my very prop. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.
Author: William Shakespeare
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It is a wise father that knows his own child. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.
Author: William Shakespeare
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An honest exceeding poor man. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.
Author: William Shakespeare
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Truth will come to sight; murder cannot be hid long. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.
Author: William Shakespeare
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In the twinkling of an eye. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.
Author: William Shakespeare
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And the vile squeaking of the wry-necked fife. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 5.
Author: William Shakespeare
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All things that are, Are with more spirit chased than enjoy'd. How like a younker or a prodigal The scarfed bark puts from her native bay, Hugg'd and embraced by the strumpet wind! How like the prodigal doth she return, With over-weather'd ribs and ragged sails, Lean, rent, and beggar'd by the strumpet wind! -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 6.
Author: William Shakespeare
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Must I hold a candle to my shames? -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 6.
Author: William Shakespeare
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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 6.
Author: William Shakespeare
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All that glisters is not gold. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 7.
Author: William Shakespeare
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Young in limbs, in judgment old. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 7.
Author: William Shakespeare
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Even in the force and road of casualty. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 9.
Author: William Shakespeare
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Hanging and wiving goes by destiny. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 9.
Author: William Shakespeare
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If my gossip Report be an honest woman of her word. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1.
Author: William Shakespeare
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If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1.
Author: William Shakespeare
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I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1.
Author: William Shakespeare
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The villany you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1.
Author: William Shakespeare
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Makes a swan-like end, Fading in music. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.
Author: William Shakespeare
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Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.
Author: William Shakespeare
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In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt But being season'd with a gracious voice Obscures the show of evil? -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.
Author: William Shakespeare
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There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue in his outward parts. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.
Author: William Shakespeare
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Thus ornament is but the guiled shore To a most dangerous sea. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.
Author: William Shakespeare
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The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.
Author: William Shakespeare
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An unlesson'd girl, unschool'd, unpractised; Happy in this, she is not yet so old But she may learn. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.
Author: William Shakespeare
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Here are a few of the unpleasant'st words That ever blotted paper! -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.
Author: William Shakespeare
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The kindest man, The best-condition'd and unwearied spirit In doing courtesies. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.
Author: William Shakespeare
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Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 5.
Author: William Shakespeare
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Let it serve for table-talk. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 5.
Author: William Shakespeare
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A harmless necessary cat. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.
Author: William Shakespeare
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What! wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice? -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.
Author: William Shakespeare
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I am a tainted wether of the flock, Meetest for death: the weakest kind of fruit Drops earliest to the ground. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.
Author: William Shakespeare
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