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• Of the king's creation you may be; but he who makes a count ne'er made a man.
  -- Thomas Southerne (1660-1746) -- Sir Anthony Love, Act ii, Sc. 1...
• Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman's love Pity 's the straightest.
  -- Beaumont and Fletcher -- The Knight of Malta, Act i, Sc. 1...
• Turn over a new leaf. -- Thomas Dekker (1572-1632) -- The Honest Whore, Part ii, Act ii, Sc. 1
• Push on,--keep moving. -- Thomas Morton (1764-1838) -- A Cure for the Heartache, Act ii, Sc. 1
• As the case stands. -- Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) -- The Old Law, Act ii, Sc. 1
• That he is mad, 't is true: 't is true 't is pity; And pity 't is 't is true.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet -- Act ii, Sc. 2...
• But yet the pity of it, Iago! O Iago, the pity of it, Iago!
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Othello -- Act iv, Sc. 1...
• Hit the nail on the head. -- John Fletcher (1576-1625) -- Love's Cure, Act ii, Sc. 1
• There shall be no love lost. -- Ben Jonson (1573-1637) -- Every Man out of his Humour, Act ii, Sc.
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