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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

William Shakespeare

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

William Shakespeare

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

The quality of mercy is not strain'd, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath.

William Shakespeare

Though she be but little, she is fierce!

William Shakespeare

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Plutarch

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

William Shakespeare

They stumble that run fast.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare