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How hard a thing 'twould be to please you all.


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Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.



Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.



Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand

Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand



Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.



He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.



'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.



Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.

Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.



Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.

Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.



Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you.

Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you.



In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.

In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.





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Suffering makes a man to seek for his Saviour.

Suffering makes a man to seek for his Saviour.



ITS DIFFICULT TO BELIEVE, WHEN U ARE IN GRIEVE, WHEN U THINK TO LEAVE, IN FUTURE U WILL ACHIEVE, TOMORROW WILL BE AN EVE.

ITS DIFFICULT TO BELIEVE, WHEN U ARE IN GRIEVE, WHEN U THINK TO LEAVE, IN FUTURE U WILL ACHIEVE, TOMORROW WILL BE AN EVE.



I have tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad, or commit a crime.

I have tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad, or commit a crime.



An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever I could not sing an air to save my life but I have the intensest delight in music and can detect good from bad.

An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever I could not sing an air to save my life but I have the intensest delight in music and can detect good from bad.



Attack wins you games, defence wins you titles.

Attack wins you games, defence wins you titles.



As actors we try to find different sides of ourselves.

As actors we try to find different sides of ourselves.



Not really, but after that I think about how I could kill him while he slept if I really wanted to, and then I feel better.

Not really, but after that I think about how I could kill him while he slept if I really wanted to, and then I feel better.



I really lived life to its fullest and that got me in trouble from time to time.

I really lived life to its fullest and that got me in trouble from time to time.



I feel like I'm the luckiest man on the planet.

I feel like I'm the luckiest man on the planet.



You only stop learning when you quit.

You only stop learning when you quit.




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