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• If after every tempest come such calms, May the winds blow till they have waken'd death!
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Othello -- Act ii, Sc. 1...
• I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.
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• Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But--why did you kick me down stairs?
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• What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living? -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Much Ado about Nothing -- Act i, Sc.
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• There is a pleasure sure In being mad which none but madmen know.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- The Spanish Friar, Act ii, Sc. 1...
• Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.
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• I have not kept my square; but that to come Shall all be done by the rule.
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• Nothing can cover his high fame but heaven; No pyramids set off his memories, But the eternal substance of his greatness,-- To which I leave him.
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