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• I 'll put a girdle round about the earth In forty minutes.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), A Midsummer Night's Dream -- Act ii, Sc. 1...
• His deeds inimitable, like the sea That shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tracts Nor prints of precedent for poor men's facts.
  -- George Chapman (1557-1634) -- Bussy D'Ambois, Act i, Sc. 1...
• So our lives In acts exemplary, not only win Ourselves good names, but doth to others give Matter for virtuous deeds, by which we live.
  -- George Chapman (1557-1634) -- Bussy D'Ambois, Act i, Sc. 1...
• Each natural agent works but to this end,-- To render that it works on like itself.
  -- George Chapman (1557-1634) -- Bussy D'Ambois, Act iii, Sc. 1...
• Who to himself is law no law doth need, Offends no law, and is a king indeed.
  -- George Chapman (1557-1634) -- Bussy D'Ambois, Act ii, Sc. 1...
• Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. -- George Chapman (1557-1634) -- Eastward Ho, Act i, Sc.
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• Make ducks and drakes with shillings. -- George Chapman (1557-1634) -- Eastward Ho, Act i, Sc. 1
• T is immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.
  -- George Chapman (1557-1634) -- Conspiracy of Charles, Duke of Byron, Act i, Sc. 1...
• Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.
  -- George Chapman (1557-1634) -- Monsieur D'Olive, Act i, Sc. 1...