Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood

Quote by Shakespeare

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To do a great right do a little wrong.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.

It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasance, age full of...

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasance, age full of...

When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might...

When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might...

A man cannot make him laugh; but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine

A man cannot make him laugh; but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine

I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep...

I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep...

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.

Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.

Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.

Commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways

Commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways

I will beat thee into handsomeness

I will beat thee into handsomeness

Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.

Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions!

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions!

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites...

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites...

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

We are merely cheated of our lives by drunkards

We are merely cheated of our lives by drunkards

'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied... whenever feeling has...

For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied... whenever feeling has...

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle