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There once was a sage playwright from Stratford,
Whose witty meanings I couldn't afford.
I popped in New Place maison,
Right upon River Avon,
And scrubbed all of his texts on my washboard.
limerick by Dan Costinaş (26 June 2022)
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King Claudius: There’s something in his soul
O’er which his melancholy sits on brood,
And I do doubt the hatch and the disclose
Will be some danger.
classic line from the play Hamlet, Act III, Scene 1, script by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Robin: Cupid is a knavish lad,
Thus to make poor females mad.
classic line from the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act III, Scene 2, script by William Shakespeare (1596)
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King Claudius: Madness in great ones must not unwatch’d go.
classic line from the play Hamlet, Act III, Scene 1, script by William Shakespeare (1599)
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King Claudius: And can you, by no drift of circumstance,
Get from him why he puts on this confusion,
Grating so harshly all his days of quiet
With turbulent and dangerous lunacy?
classic line from the play Hamlet, Act III, Scene 1, script by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet: It might be the pate of a politician, which this ass now o’er-reaches; one that would circumvent God, might it not?
classic line from Hamlet by William Shakespeare (1599)
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First Clown: What is he that builds stronger than either the mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter?
Second Clown: The gallows-maker; for that frame outlives a thousand tenants.
classic lines from the play Hamlet, Act V, Scene 1, script by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Iago: Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
classic line from Othello by William Shakespeare (1603)
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Dr. Juvenal Urbino: I'll have plenty of time to rest when I die, but this eventuality is not yet part of my plans.
classic line from the novel Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1985), translated by Edith Grossman
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Shake, Mulleary And Go-Ethe
I
I have a bookcase, which is what
Many much better men have not.
There are no books inside, for books,
I am afraid, might spoil its looks.
But I've three busts, all second-hand,
Upon the top. You understand
I could not put them underneath -
Shake, Mulleary and Go-ethe.
II
Shake was a dramatist of note;
He lived by writing things to quote,
He long ago put on his shroud:
Some of his works are rather loud.
His bald-spot's dusty, I suppose.
I know there's dust upon his nose.
I'll have to give each nose a sheath -
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poem by V. Hugo Dusenbury from Puck (1880)
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