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Shakespeare's Quotes Echo in Our Hearts

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There is very little confirmed information available on the life of William Shakespeare. Shakespeare researchers have inferred, with the help of little evidence, that Shakespeare was provided basic education at the town's grammar school. However, researchers have also concluded that Shakespeare never attended any university or institution of higher learning. This lack of formal advanced education did not deter William Shakespeare from establishing himself as the world's greatest playwright. There is beauty in Shakespeare's language. You can revel in the literary magic of these famous Shakespeare quotes.

King Lear Act II, Sc. IV
Necessity's sharp pinch!

All 's Well that Ends Well Act I, Sc. III
Service is no heritage.

Hamlet Act I, Sc. II
Frailty, thy name is woman!

Macbeth Act I, Sc. I
Fair is foul, and foul is fair.

Othello Act V, Sc. I
It makes us or it mars us.

Antony and Cleopatra Act IV, Sc. I
I am dying, Egypt, dying.

Hamlet Act V, Sc. I
Forty thousand brothers
Could not, with all their quantity of love,
Make up my sum.

Romeo and Juliet Act I, Sc. I
Saint-seducing gold.

As You Like It Act III, Sc. II
It goes much against my stomach. Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd?

King Henry IV Part I Act I, Sc. II
He will give the devil his due.

Julius Caesar Act III, Sc. I
Et tu, Brute!

Antony and Cleopatra Act I, Sc. V
My salad days,
When I was green in judgment.

King Henry IV Part II Act III, Sc. II
A man can die but once.

Hamlet Act IV, Sc. V
His beard was as white as snow,
All flaxen was his poll.

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