Brevity is the soul of wit.

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  All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

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

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  The whole country was crammed with moral lessons, and there was no morality.

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  Rascals are always sociable — more’s the pity!

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  Of wild beasts the worst bite is the slanderer’s; of tame ones, the flatterer’s.

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  A sensible man is ashamed to meddle in what he is not skilled in, while a senseless one thinks it a great shame if he does not poke his nose in everywhere.

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