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“This above all: to thine ownself be true. And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.”

—Polonius in Hamlet

 

“Come, let’s away to prison; We two alone will sing like birds i’ the cage: When thou dost ask me blessing, I’ll kneel down,   And ask of thee forgiveness: so we’ll live,

 

And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news.” —Lear in King Lear

 

“They have been at a great feast of languages, and stol’n the scraps.” —Moth in Love’s Labor’s Lost

 

“I would give all my fame for a pot of ale, and safety.” Boy in Henry V

 

“For your brother and my sister no sooner met, but they looked; no sooner looked, but they loved; no sooner loved, but they sighed; no sooner sighed, but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy.”

—Rosalind in As You Like It