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• Why did Shakespeare use so many famous quotations in his work?
• Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's,-- Therefore on him no speech!
  And brief for thee, Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale, No man hath walk'd along our roads with steps So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue So varied in discourse....
• Show his eyes, and grieve his heart; Come like shadows, so depart!
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Macbeth -- Act iv, Sc. 1...
• Such a house broke! So noble a master fallen! All gone and not One friend to take his fortune by the arm And go along with him.
  -- William Shakespeare...
• I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.
  -- James Barrie...
• From the crown of his head to the sole of his foot he is all mirth
  he has twice or thrice cut Cupid's bowstring, and the little hangman dare not shoot at him...
• A heart unspotted is not easily daunted. -- William Shakespeare
• He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike. -- William Shakespeare
• Rebellion lay in his way, and he found it. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry IV