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01c. 1590 AD

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano,— A stage, where every man must play a part; And mine a sad one.

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02c. 1590 AD

Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?

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03c. 1590 AD

There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond.

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04c. 1590 AD

I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!

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05c. 1590 AD

I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing.

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06c. 1590 AD

Fish not, with this melancholy bait, For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.

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07c. 1590 AD

Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.

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08c. 1590 AD

In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft, I shot his fellow of the selfsame flight The selfsame way, with more advised watch, To find the other forth; and by adventuring both, I oft found both.

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09c. 1590 AD

They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.

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10c. 1590 AD

Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.

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11c. 1590 AD

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.

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12c. 1590 AD

The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.

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13c. 1590 AD

He doth nothing but talk of his horse.

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14c. 1590 AD

God, made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.

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15c. 1590 AD

When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.

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16c. 1590 AD

I dote on his very absence.

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17c. 1590 AD

My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient.

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18c. 1590 AD

Ships are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves.

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19c. 1590 AD

I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you. What news on the Rialto?

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20c. 1590 AD

I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. He hates our sacred nation, and he rails, Even there where merchants most do congregate.

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21c. 1590 AD

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

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22c. 1590 AD

A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

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23c. 1590 AD

Many a time and oft In the Rialto you have rated me.

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24c. 1590 AD

For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.

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