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Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

William Shakespeare

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

William Shakespeare

What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty!

William Shakespeare

Nothing will come of nothing.

William Shakespeare

All's well that ends well.

William Shakespeare

You were not made to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Dante Alighieri

Beyond the sphere that widest orbit swings, passes the sigh that leaves my heart below.

Francesco Petrarca

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.

William Shakespeare