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William Shakespeare

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Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.


— William Shakespeare


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How well he's read, to reason against reading!


— William Shakespeare


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I bear a charmed life.


— William Shakespeare


#charmed #i #life

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.


— William Shakespeare


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In a false quarrel there is no true valor.


— William Shakespeare


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Let no such man be trusted.


— William Shakespeare


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My pride fell with my fortunes.


— William Shakespeare


#fortunes #pride

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.


— William Shakespeare


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'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.


— William Shakespeare


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'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.


— William Shakespeare


#better #fly #ills #know #others






About William Shakespeare

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Did you know about William Shakespeare?

According to Shakespearean scholar James Shapiro in Julius Caesar "the various strands of politics character inwardness contemporary events even Shakespeare's own reflections on the act of writing began to infuse each other". In 1598 the cleric and author Francis Meres singled him out from a group of English writers as "the most excellent" in both comedy and tragedy. Many of his plays were publiWilliam Shakespeared in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime.

In the 20th century his work was repeatedly adopted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship and performance. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". At the age of 18 he married Anne Hathaway with whom he had three children: Susanna and twins Hamnet and Judith.

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