"O devil, devil! If that the earth could teem with woman's tears, each drop she falls would prove a crocodile."
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Othello by William Shakespeare
"Your words and performances are no kin together."
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Othello by William Shakespeare
"O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites!"
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Othello by William Shakespeare
"O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on."
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Othello by William Shakespeare
"Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; but he that filches from me my good name robs me of that which not enriches him and makes me poor indeed."
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Othello by William Shakespeare
"I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly; a quarrel, but nothing wherefore. O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!"
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Othello by William Shakespeare
"Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial."
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Othello by William Shakespeare
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
"So much has religion done for me; turning the original materials to the best account; pruning and training nature. But she could not eradicate nature: nor will it be eradicated 'till this mortal shall put on immortality."
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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