When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.

William Shakespeare in The Merchant of Venice
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Antonio: The Hebrew will turn Christian. He grows kind.
Bassanio: I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.

lines from the play The Merchant of Venice, Act I, Scene 3, script by William Shakespeare (1598)
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Portia: I am glad this parcel of wooers are so reasonable, for there is not one among them but I dote on his very absence.

line from The Merchant of Venice, Act I, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1598)
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Launcelot: Nay, indeed if you had your eyes, you might fail of the knowing me. It is a wise father that knows his own child.

line from the play The Merchant of Venice, Act II, Scene 2, script by William Shakespeare (1598)
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Portia: If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.

line from the play The Merchant of Venice, Act I, Scene 2, script by William Shakespeare (1598)
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Bassanio: This is no answer, thou unfeeling man,
To excuse the current of thy cruelty.
Shylock: I am not bound to please thee with my answers.

lines from the play The Merchant of Venice, Act IV, Scene 1, script by William Shakespeare (1598)
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Shylock: If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?

line from the play The Merchant of Venice, Act III, Scene 1, script by William Shakespeare (1598)
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But love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit; for if they could, Cupid himself would blush to see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare in The Merchant of Venice
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Gratiano: Let me play the fool;
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
And let my liver rather heat with wine
Than my heart cool with mortifying groans.

line from the play The Merchant of Venice, Act I, Scene 1, script by William Shakespeare (1598)
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The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

William Shakespeare in The Merchant of Venice
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