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• Ground not upon dreams; you know they are ever contrary.
  -- Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) -- The Family of Love, Act iv, Sc. 3...
• A flat case as plain as a pack-staff. -- Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) -- The Family of Love, Act v, Sc.
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• As true as I live. -- Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) -- The Family of Love, Act v, Sc. 3
• Have you summoned your wits from wool-gathering? -- Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) -- The Family of Love, Act v, Sc.
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• There is no hate lost between us. -- Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) -- The Witch, Act iv, Sc. 3
• Turn over a new leaf. -- Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) -- Anything for a Quiet Life, Act iii, Sc.
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• T is slight, not strength, that gives the greatest lift.
  -- Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) -- Michaelmas Term, Act iv, Sc. 1...
• Hold their noses to the grindstone. -- Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) -- Blurt, Master-Constable, Act iii, Sc.
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• I smell a rat. -- Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) -- Blurt, Master-Constable, Act iii, Sc. 3