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William Shakespeare

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The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.


— William Shakespeare


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The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.


— William Shakespeare


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There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.


— William Shakespeare


#construction #face #find #mind

There's many a man has more hair than wit.


— William Shakespeare


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'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.


— William Shakespeare


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To be, or not to be, that is the question.


— William Shakespeare


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


— William Shakespeare


#bids #gone #subjects

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.


— William Shakespeare


#hasten #like #make #minutes #our

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


— William Shakespeare


#battalions #come #single #sorrows #spies

I will praise any man that will praise me.


— 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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