Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me, From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

Quote by Shakespeare

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Banquet: an affair where you eat a lot of food you don't want before talking...

Banquet: an affair where you eat a lot of food you don't want before talking...

What's done can't be undone.

What's done can't be undone.

Conscience is but a word that cowards use, / Devised at first to keep the...

Conscience is but a word that cowards use, / Devised at first to keep the...

Absence makes the heart grow fonder

Absence makes the heart grow fonder

If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to...

If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to...

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

In the corrupted currents of this word offence's gilded hand may solve by justice, and...

In the corrupted currents of this word offence's gilded hand may solve by justice, and...

What need I fear of thee? But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take...

What need I fear of thee? But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take...

Grief makes one hour ten

Grief makes one hour ten

This above all; to thine own self be true.

This above all; to thine own self be true.

Beggars mounted run their horses to death.

Beggars mounted run their horses to death.

Service is no heritage.

Service is no heritage.

To their right praise and true perfection!

To their right praise and true perfection!

I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.

I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.

Good counselors lack no clients

Good counselors lack no clients

The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops...

The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops...

And summer's lease hath all too short a date.

And summer's lease hath all too short a date.

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

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

Smiling like an idiot while having an amazing conversation with your bestfriend.

Smiling like an idiot while having an amazing conversation with your bestfriend.

Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.

Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.