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  • "I think thou dost; And, for I know thou'rt full of love and honesty And weigh'st thy words before thou giv'st them breath, Therefore these stops of thine fright me the more; For such things in a false disloyal knave Are tricks of custom; but in a man that's just They are close dilations, working from the heart That passion cannot rule."
    By: William Shakespeare, Othello the Moor of Venice (Othello at III, iii)
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  • "There sentences, to sugar, or to gall, Being strong on both sides, are equivocal. But words are words. I never yet did hear That the bruised heart was pierced through the ear."
    By: William Shakespeare, Othello the Moor of Venice (Brabantio at I, iii)
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  • "Words are words; I never yet did hear, That the bruis'd heart was pierced through the ear."
    By: William Shakespeare, Othello
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  • "He was wont to speak plain and to the purpose, like an honest man and a soldier; and now is he turned orthography; his words are a very fantastical banquet--just so many strange dishes."
    By: William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (Benedick at II, iii)
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  • "Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affection, Figures pedantical--these summer flies Have blown me full of maggot ostentation."
    By: William Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost (Berowne at V, ii)
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  • "O, they have lived long on the alms-basket of words. I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word; for thou art not so long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus. Thou art easier swallowed than a flapdragon."
    By: William Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost (Costard at V, i)
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  • "But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world. Now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence."
    By: William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (Antony at III, ii)
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  • "Words without thoughts never to heaven go."
    By: William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (King at III, iii)
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  • "My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go."
    By: William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Claudius, King of Denmark at III, iii)
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  • "Why, what an ass am I! This is most brave, That I, the son of a dear father murdered, Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell, Must like a whore unpack my heart with words And fall a-cursing like a very drab, A stallion! Fie upon't, foh! About, my brains."
    By: William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at II, ii)
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  • "(Polonius:) What do you read my lord? (Hamlet:) Words, words, words."
    By: William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Polonius & Hamlet at II, ii)
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  • "To who? To thee? What art thou? Have not I An arm as big as thine? A heart as big? Thy words, I grant, are bigger, for I wear not My dagger in my mouth."
    By: William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (Guiderius at IV, ii)
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  • "Windy attorneys to their client woes, Airy succeeders of intestate joys, Poor breathing orators of miseries! Let them have scopes: though what they do impart Help nothing else, yet do they ease the heart."
    By: William Shakespeare
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  • "Unpack my heart with words, And fall a-cursing, like a very drab."
    By: William Shakespeare
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  • "I was never so bethumped with words since first I called my brother's father dad."
    By: William Shakespeare
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  • "Good words are better than bad strokes."
    By: William Shakespeare
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