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• My lungs began to crow like chanticleer, That fools should be so deep-contemplative
  And I did laugh sans intermission An hour by his dial....
• Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying! I grant you I was down and out of breath
  and so was he. But we rose both at an instant, and fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock....
• Make the coming hour o'erflow with joy, And pleasure drown the brim.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), All 's Well that Ends Well -- Act ii, Sc. 4...
• True is it that we have seen better days. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), As You Like It -- Act ii, Sc.
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• I must become a borrower of the night For a dark hour or twain.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Macbeth -- Act iii, Sc. 1...
• A merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Love's Labour 's Lost -- Act ii, Sc. 1...
• And thereby hangs a tale. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Taming of the Shrew -- Act iv, Sc.
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• The Banana Principle: If you buy bananas or avocados before they are ripe, there won't be any left by the time they are ripe.
  If you buy them ripe, they rot before they are eaten....
• An hour before the worshipp'd sun Peered forth the golden window of the east.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Romeo and Juliet -- Act i, Sc. 1...