William Shakespeare · 280 pages
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“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
“No legacy is so rich as honesty.”
“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
“Good with out evil is like light with out darkness which in turn is like righteousness whith out hope.”
“The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud,if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues.”
“My friends were poor, but honest.”
“My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil drives.”
“It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase, and there was never virgin got till virginity was first lost. That you were made of is metal to make virgins. Virginity, by being once lost, may be ten times found: by being ever kept, it is ever lost. ’Tis too cold a companion: away with ’t!”
“He that hangs himself is a virgin: virginity murders itself, and should be buried in highways, out of all sanctified limit, as a desperate offendress against nature. Virginity breeds mites, much like a cheese, consumes itself to the very paring, and so dies with feeding his own stomach. Besides, virginity is peevish, proud, idle, made of self-love, which is the most inhibited sin in the canon. Keep it not; you cannot choose but lose by’t! Out with’t! within the year it will make itself two, which is a goodly increase, and the principal itself not much the worse. Away with ’t!”
“A young man married is a man that's marred.”
“Tis a commodity that will lose the gloss with lying; the longer kept, the less worth: off with ’t, while ’tis vendible; answer the time of request. Virginity, like an old courtier, wears her cap out of fashion; richly suited, but unsuitable: just like the brooch and the toothpick, which wear not now.”
“Twas a good lady, 'twas a good lady: we may pick a thousand salads ere we light on such another herb.”
“Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing.”
“From lowest place when virtuous things proceed,
The place is dignified by the doer's deed.”
“Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead,
excessive grief the enemy to the living.”
“Now I see the mystery of your loneliness .”
“What I can do can do no hurt to try, Since you set up your rest 'gainst remedy. He that of greatest works is finisher Oft does them by the weakest minister: So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown, When judges have been babes; great floods have flown From simple sources, and great seas have dried When miracles have by the greatest been denied. Oft expectation fails and most oft there Where most it promises, and oft it hits Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.”
“good alone
Is good without a name, vileness is so”
“It is in us to plant thine honour where
We please to have it grow.”
“Strange is it that our bloods,
Of colour, weight, and heat, pour'd all together,
Would quite confound distinction, yet stand off
In differences so mighty.”
“I pick up the thin, delicate silver chain that has a flat bar that horizontally connects the chain together. I see that the bar is etched with tiny letters that scribe: And though she be but little, she is fierce”
“Must not kill the demon cat. Must not kill the demon cat.”
“Branch Bacardi, star of The Da Vinci Load, To Drill a Mockingbird, The Postman Always Cums Twice, Chitty Chitty Gang Bang, The Twilight Bone, A Tale of Two Titties...”
“El proceso acaba siempre sustrayendo a la circulación más dinero del que a ella se lanzó. El algodón comprado por 100 libras esterlinas se vende, por ejemplo, por 100 + 10, o sea por 110 libras esterlinas. La fórmula completa de este proceso es por tanto: D – M – D’, donde D’ = D + D D, o lo que es lo mismo igual a la suma de dinero primeramente desembolsada más un incremento. Este incremento o excedente que queda después de cubrir el valor primitivo es lo que yo llamo plusvalía (surplus value). Por tanto, el valor primeramente desembolsado no sólo se conserva en la circulación, sino que su magnitud de valor experimenta, dentro de ella, un cambio, se incrementa con una plusvalía, se valoriza. Y este proceso es el que lo convierte en capital.”
“Maybe Father thought I was bad girl enough and didn't need a slutty outfit to emphasize that further.”
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