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Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters. To beguile the time, Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under't. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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I am even The natural fool of fortune. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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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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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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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Beware the ides of March. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#foreshadowing #julius-ceasar #warning #shakespeare

Though this be madness, yet there is method in't. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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