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Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells. ... The success of later Shakespeare is the success of spells, where every element, however uneven, however incredible, is fastened to the next with perfect authority. The enchanted world shimmers but does not waver. A Midsummer Night's Dream is the first of his plays to accomplish this, The Tempest is enchantment's apotheosis. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. ↗

— Socrates

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These violent delights have violent ends And in their triump die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume ↗

— William Shakespeare

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Conscience doth make cowards of us all. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince; And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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Some are born great, others achieve greatness. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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All's well if all ends well. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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