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| Fate always goes as it must. |
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Book: "Beowulf"
Author: Anonymous
Character: Beowulf to Hrothgar |
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| Sorrow not, wise warrior. It is better for a man to avenge his friend than much mourn. |
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Book: "Beowulf"
Author: Anonymous
Character: Beowulf to Hrothgar |
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| Fate will often save an undoomed man if his courage is good. |
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Book: "Beowulf"
Author: Anonymous
Character: Hrothgar to Beowulf |
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| He was a verray, parfit, gentil knight. |
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Book: "The Canterbury Tales"...General Prologue
Author: Geoffry Chaucer
Character: The Narrator |
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| Experience, though noon auctoritee/ Were in this world, is good enough for me. |
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Book: "The Canterbury Tales"...The Wife of Bath's Prologue
Author: Geoffry Chaucer
Character: The Wife of Bath/Alison |
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| For half so boldely can ther no man/ Swere and lie as a woman can. |
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Book: "The Canterbury Tales"...The Wife of Bath's Prologue
Author: Geoffry Chaucer
Character: The Wife of Bath/Alison |
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| ...in his owene grece I made him frye,/ For angre and for verray jalousye./ By God, in erthe I was his purgatorye. |
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Book: "The Canterbury Tales"...The Wife of Bath's Prolouge
Author: Geoffry Chaucer
Character: The Wife of Bath/Alison |
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| He yaf me al the bridel in myn hand. |
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Book: "The Canterbury Tales"...The Wife of Bath's Prologue
Author: Geoffry Chaucer
Character: The Wife of Bath/Alison |
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| God help me so, I was to him as kinde,/ As any wif from Denmark unto Inde. |
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Book: "The Canterbury Tales"...The Wife of Bath's Tale
Author: Geoffry Chaucer
Character: The Wife of Bath/Alison |
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| Wommen desire to have sovereinetee/ As wel over hir housbonde as hir love,/ And for to been in maistrye him above. |
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Book: "The Canterbury Tales"...The Wife of Bath's Tale
Author: Geoffry Chaucer
Character: The Knight |
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| Radix malorum est cupiditas. (Money is the root of evil) |
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Book: "The Canterbury Tales"...The Pardoner's Prologue
Author: Geoffry Chaucer
Character: The Pardoner |
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| Thus spete I out my venim under hewe/ Of holinesse, to seeme holy and trewe. |
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Book: "The Canterbury Tales"...The Pardoner's Prologue
Author: Geoffry Chaucer
Character: The Pardoner |
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| I wol have monye, wolle, chese, and whete,/ Al were it yiven of the poorest page,/ Or of a poore widwe in village,/ Al sholde hir children sterve of famine. |
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Book: "The Canterbury Tales"...The Pardoner's Prologue
Author: Geoffry Chaucer
Character: The Pardoner |
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| And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can made defense/ Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence. |
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Definition
Book: "Shakespeare's Sonnet 12"
Author: Shakespeare
Character: Horny Guy (saying that time is wasting away so they should get in the sack) |
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| 'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed/ When not to be receives reproach of being. |
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Book: "Shakespeare's Sonnet 121"
Author: Shakespeare
Character: |
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| So shalt thou (soul) feed on death, that feeds on men,/ and death once dead, there's no more dying then. |
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Book: "Shakespeare's Sonnet 146"
Author: Shakespeare
Character: |
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| For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;/ Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds. |
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Book: "Shakespeare's Sonnet 94"
Author: Shakespeare
Character: |
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| Death, be not proud, though some have called thee/ Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. |
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Book: "Holy Sonnet 10"
Author: John Donne
Character: a pipsqueek (telling Death what's up) |
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| No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. |
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Book: "Meditation 17"
Author: John Donne
Character: John Donne |
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| Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably. |
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Book: "Areopagitica"
Author: John Milton
Character: Milton |
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| The mind is its own place, and in itself,/ Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. |
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Definition
Book: "Paradise Lost" Book 1
Author: John Milton
Character: Satin |
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| Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven. |
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Definition
Book: "Paradise Lost" Book 1
Author: John Milton
Character: Satin |
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Term
| A strange effect of narrow principles and short views! |
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Definition
Book: "Gulliver's Travels"
Author: Jonathan Swift
Character: Narrator |
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Term
| A soldier is a yahoo hired to kill as many of his own species, who have never offended him, as possibly he can. |
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Book: "Gulliver's Travels"
Author: Jonathan Swift
Character: Narrator |
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| ...But when I behold a lump of deformity, and diseases both in body and mind, smitten with pride, it immediately breaks all measures of my patience. |
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Book: "Gulliver's Travels"
Author: Jonathan Swift
Character: Narrator |
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| And now (as oft in some distempered state)/ On one nice trick depends the general fate. |
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Book: "The Rape of the Lock"
Author: Alexander Pope
Character: |
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| Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;/ Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. |
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Definition
Book: "Canto V"
Author: Alexander Pope
Character: |
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| Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate,/ All but the page prescribed, their present state. |
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Definition
Book: "An Essay on Man"
Author: Alexander Pope
Character: |
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| And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite,/ One truth is clear: Whatever is, is right. |
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Book: "An Essay on Man"
Author: Alexander Pope
Character: |
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| Know then thyself, presume not God to scan;/ The proper study of mankind is Man. |
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Book: "An Essay on Man"
Author: Alexander Pope
Character: |
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| I hold the world but as the world.../ A stage, where every man must play a part,/ And mine is a sad one. |
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Book: "The Merchant of Venice"
Author: Shakespeare
Character: Antonio |
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| It is a good divine that follows his own instruction. |
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Book: "The Merchant of Venice"
Author: Shakespeare
Character: Portia |
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| The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. |
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Book: "The Merchant of Venice"
Author: Shakespeare
Character: Antonio |
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| But love is blind, and lovers cannot see/ The pretty follies that themselves commit. |
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Book: "The Merchant of Venice"
Author: Shakespeare
Character: Jessica |
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| All that glisters is not gold. |
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Book: "The Merchant of Venice"
Author: Shakespeare
Character: Prince of Morocco (he read the letter inside the casket) |
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Book: "The Merchant of Venice"
Author: Shakespeare
Character: Shylock |
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| The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven/ Upon the place beneath. |
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Definition
Book: "The Merchant of Venice"
Author: Shakespeare
Character: Portia |
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| How many things by season seasoned are/ To their right praise and true perfection. |
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Book: "The Merchant of Venice"
Author: Shakespeare
Character: Portia |
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