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People usually are the happiest at home.
-William Shakespeare
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Honesty
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Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
-William Shakespeare
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Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.
-William Shakespeare
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...the honour of a maid is her name; and
no legacy is so rich as honesty.
-William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, Act 3, Scene 5
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Honor
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Why should honor outlive honestly? Orthello
-William Shakespeare
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Hope
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The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.
-William Shakespeare
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Horses, Horse Racing
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So did this horse excel a common one
In shape, in courage, color, pace and bone.
...What a horse should have he did not lack,
Save a proud rider on so proud a back.
-William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis
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When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: He trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.
-William Shakespeare
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Hospitality
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We'll teach you to drink deep ere you depart.
-William Shakespeare
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Humanity
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My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
-William Shakespeare
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Humility
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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.
-William Shakespeare
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We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.
-William Shakespeare
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Humor
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He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
-William Shakespeare
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Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. Where be your jibes now, your gambols, your songs, your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar?
-William Shakespeare
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He's winding up the watch of his wit. By and by it will strike.
-William Shakespeare
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Ignorance & Stupidity
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O, but man, proud man! Drest in a little brief authority; Most ingorant of what he's most assur'd, His glassy essence,-like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, As make the angels weep;
-William Shakespeare
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There is no darkness, but ignorance.
-William Shakespeare
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Immortality
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But thy eternal summer shall not fade.
-William Shakespeare
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Infatuation
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I stalk about her door like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks staying for wattage.
-William Shakespeare
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Infidelity
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O curse of marriage that we can call these delicate creatures ours and not their appetites!
-William Shakespeare
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Insanity
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Though this be madness, yet there is method in it. Hamlet
-William Shakespeare
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Insults
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Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
-William Shakespeare
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Intelligence
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It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.
-William Shakespeare
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Judging, Judgment
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My salad days, when I was green in judgment.
-William Shakespeare
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Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice.
-William Shakespeare
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