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William Shakespeare

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Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes.


— William Shakespeare


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These violent delights have violent ends.


— William Shakespeare


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O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, 1710. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness?


— William Shakespeare


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Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.


— William Shakespeare


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The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.


— William Shakespeare


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Like madness is the glory of life.


— William Shakespeare


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God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another.


— William Shakespeare


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The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.


— William Shakespeare


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Thou art a very ragged Wart.


— William Shakespeare


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To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.


— William Shakespeare


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About William Shakespeare

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Did you know about William Shakespeare?

According to Shakespearean scholar James Shapiro in Julius Caesar "the various strands of politics character inwardness contemporary events even Shakespeare's own reflections on the act of writing began to infuse each other". In 1598 the cleric and author Francis Meres singled him out from a group of English writers as "the most excellent" in both comedy and tragedy. Many of his plays were publiWilliam Shakespeared in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime.

In the 20th century his work was repeatedly adopted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship and performance. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". At the age of 18 he married Anne Hathaway with whom he had three children: Susanna and twins Hamnet and Judith.

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