"Your worm is your only emperor for..." - Quote by William Shakespeare
Your worm is your only emperor for diet; we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots.
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“Pardon, gentles all, the flat unraised spirits that have dared on this unworthy scaffold to bring forth so great an object.”
“Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.”
“For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?”
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“Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.”
“Spend all you have before you die, and do not outlive yourself.”
“Who knows if to live is to be dead, and to be dead, to live? And we really, it may be, are dead; in fact I once heard sages say that we are now dead, and the body is our tomb.”