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“The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.”
“They say an old man is twice a child”
“Mad I call it, for to define true madness, what is't to be nothing else but mad?”
“In my mind's eye”
“Diseases desperate grown,By desperate appliance are relieved,Or not at all.”
“In the corrupted currents of this worldOffence's gilded hand may shove by justice,And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itselfBuys out the law. . . (Claudius, from Hamlet, Act 3, scene 3)”
“See you now your bait of falsehood take this carp of truth; and thus do we of wisdom and of reach, with windlasses and with assays of bias, by indirections find directions out.”
“Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.”
“What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,That he should weep for her?”
“Brevity is the soul of wit.”
