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• I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets here.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Merry Wives of Windsor -- Act i, Sc. 1...
• I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Julius Caesar -- Act iv, Sc. 3...
• Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors, My very noble and approv'd good masters, That I have ta'en away this old man's daughter, It is most true
  ue, I have married her: The very head and front of my offending Hath this extent, no more....
• And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature.
  Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Macbeth -- Act i, Sc....
• I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King Henry IV -- Act iii, Sc. 1...
• I have had my labour for my travail. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Troilus and Cressida -- Act i, Sc.
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• I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), As You Like It -- Act iv, Sc. 1...
• O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours, And not their appetites!
  I had rather be a toad And live upon the vapor of a dungeon Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others' uses....
• A little more than kin, and less than kind. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet -- Act i, Sc.
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