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William Shakespeare

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O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!


— William Shakespeare


#goodly #hath #outside

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.


— William Shakespeare


#fair #foul #i #seen

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?


— William Shakespeare


#desert #every #every man #his #man

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.


— William Shakespeare


#every #nothing #something #together #turns

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!


— William Shakespeare


#done #how #ill #makes #means

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.


— William Shakespeare


#glass #made #mouths #never #she

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.


— William Shakespeare


#strokes #virtue

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.


— William Shakespeare


#gear #good #she #well #woman

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.


— William Shakespeare


#enough #poor #rich

Listen to many, speak to a few.


— William Shakespeare


#listen #many #speak






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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