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Hee that tells his wife newes is but newly married.
Hee that tells his wife newes is but newly married.
Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
These are the evils which result from gossiping habits.
These are the evils which result from gossiping habits.
What an alteration of honour has
Desperate want made!
What an alteration of honour has
Desperate want made!
An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.
An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions: first, her father slain;
Next, your read more
When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions: first, her father slain;
Next, your son gone, and he most violent author
Of his own just remove; the people muddied,
Thick and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers
For good Polonius' death, and we have done but greenly
In hugger-mugger to inter him; poor Ophelia
Divided from herself and her fair judgment,
Without the which we are pictures or mere beasts;
Last, and as much containing as all these,
Her brother is in secret come from France,
Feeds on his wonder, keeps himself in clouds,
And wants not buzzers to infect his ear
With pestilent speeches of his father's death,
Wherein necessity, of matter beggared,
Will nothing stick our person to arraign
In ear and ear.
This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason.
This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason.
Not if you burst yourself will you equal him.
Not if you burst yourself will you equal him.
O, that men's ears should be
To counsel deaf, but not to flattery!
O, that men's ears should be
To counsel deaf, but not to flattery!
