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Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare

King Henry IV., Part 1st -- I. 2.

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WELCOME.

Welcome ever smiles,

And farewell goes out sighing.

Troilus and Cressida -- III. 3.

WINE.

Good wine is a good familiar creature,

if it be well used.

Othello -- II. 3.

O thou invisible spirit of wine,

if thou hast no name to be known by,

let us call thee --devil!. . . O, that

men should put an enemy in their mouths,

to steal away their brains!

that we should with joy, revel,

pleasure, and applause,

transform ourselves into beasts!

Othello -- II. 3.

WOMAN.

A woman impudent and mannish grown

Is not more loathed than an effeminate man.

Troilus and Cressida -- III. 3.

WORDS.

Words without thoughts

never to heaven go.

Hamlet -- III. 3.

Few words shall fit the trespass best,

Where no excuse can give the fault amending.

Troilus and Cressida -- III. 2.

WORLDLY CARE.

You have too much respect upon the world:

They lose it, that do buy it with much care.

Merchant of Venice -- I. 1.

WORLDLY HONORS.

Not a man, for being simply man,

Hath any honor; but honor for those honors

That are without him, as place, riches, favor,

Prizes of accident as oftas merit;

Which when they fall, as being slippery standers,

The love that leaned on them, as slippery too,

Do one pluck down another, and together

Die in the fall. But 'tis not so with me.

Troilus and Cressida -- III. 3.

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