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Our whole life is like a play.

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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Sight Swans Sweet
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Horse Plies Wine
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Glory Servant Virtue
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Fortune Practise Sports
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Glory Greed Wealth
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Book Looks Reader
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Men Teaching Wise
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Book Faithful May
How near to good is what is fair!
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Fairs Good Goodness Near
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Men Silence Speech
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Eye Government Letter
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile

Our whole life is like a play.

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