"My business was great, and in such..." - Quote by William Shakespeare
My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.
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“Light seeking light doth light of light beguile: So, ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes.”
“This is his uncle's teaching, this Worcester, Malevolent to you In all aspects, Which makes him prune himself and bristle up The crest of youth against your dignity.”
“Is she kind as she is fair?”
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“There are times when you get frustrated, but the one thing you always focus on is treating people well. You just cannot storm off and freak out.”
“I have criticized absent people so often, and then discovered, to my humiliation, that I was talking with their relatives, that I have grown superstitious about that sort of thing and dropped it.”
“Five is the very awkwardest of all posible numbers to sit down to table.”
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“The web of this world is woven of Necessity and Chance. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth up to find something necessary in what is capricious, and who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.”
“Pardon is granted to necessity.”
“We make allowance for necessity.”