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If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work.

If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work.

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Who has a book of all that monarchs do,
He's more secure to keep it shut than shown;
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Who has a book of all that monarchs do,
He's more secure to keep it shut than shown;
For vice repeated is like the wand'ring wind,
Blows dust in others' eye, to spread itself;
And yet the end of all is bought thus dear,
The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear
To stop the air would hurt them.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Vice Quotes,
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And thus I clothe my naked villany With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ, And seem a saint read more

And thus I clothe my naked villany With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ, And seem a saint when most I play the devil. -King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 3.

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By penitence th' Eternal's wrath's appeas'd.

By penitence th' Eternal's wrath's appeas'd.

by William Shakespeare Found in: General Sayings,
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He was indeed the glass
Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves.

He was indeed the glass
Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Example Quotes,
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