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Seeming genial, venial fault.
Seeming genial, venial fault.
Of him that speakes ill, consider the life more then the word.
Of him that speakes ill, consider the life more then the word.
You walk over red-hot lava hidden beneath treacherous ashes.
You walk over red-hot lava hidden beneath treacherous ashes.
He that will be served must bee patient.
He that will be served must bee patient.
You kick against the goad.
You kick against the goad.
Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity.
Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity.
Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.
There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions: first, her father slain;
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When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions: first, her father slain;
Next, your son gone, and he most violent author
Of his own just remove; the people muddied,
Thick and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers
For good Polonius' death, and we have done but greenly
In hugger-mugger to inter him; poor Ophelia
Divided from herself and her fair judgment,
Without the which we are pictures or mere beasts;
Last, and as much containing as all these,
Her brother is in secret come from France,
Feeds on his wonder, keeps himself in clouds,
And wants not buzzers to infect his ear
With pestilent speeches of his father's death,
Wherein necessity, of matter beggared,
Will nothing stick our person to arraign
In ear and ear.