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    Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on,—how then? Can honour set to a leg? no: or an arm? no: or take away the grief of a wound? no. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? no. What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour; what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no. 'T is insensible, then? yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I 'll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon. And so ends my catechism. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 1.

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And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak. -King Henry VI. Part III. read more

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We cannot hold mortality's strong hand. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.

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And thereby hangs a tale. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act iv. Sc. 1.

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I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die: I think there read more

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The young gentleman, according to Fates and Destinies and such odd sayings, the Sisters Three and such branches of learning, read more

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Come not within the measure of my wrath. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act v. Sc. 4.

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His cares are now all ended. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act v. Sc. 2.

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