"With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]"

Shakespeare, William on age and aging
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"Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive."

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"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

Shakespeare, William on names
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"Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it."

Shakespeare, William on modesty
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"Love is too young to know what conscience is."

Shakespeare, William on love
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"Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms."

Shakespeare, William on losers and losing
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"The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream."

Shakespeare, William on ambition
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"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."

Shakespeare, William on the future
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"I will praise any man that will praise me."

Shakespeare, William on flattery
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"Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes."

Shakespeare, William on envy
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"Fashion wears out more clothes than the man."

Shakespeare, William on fashion
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"The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants."

Shakespeare, William on family
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"Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent."

Shakespeare, William on fame
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"God had given you one face, and you make yourself another. [Hamlet]"

Shakespeare, William on faces
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"I wasted time, and now time doth waste me."

Shakespeare, William on age and aging
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"To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name."

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