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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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Hanging and wiving goes by destiny. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 9.

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If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I 'll be hanged. -King Henry IV. read more

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting. -King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 4.

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Every one fault seeming monstrous till his fellow-fault came to match it. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.

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Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.

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Well said: that was laid on with a trowel. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2.

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Patch grief with proverbs. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1.

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Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.

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