Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
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Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man
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Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
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He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man
What he hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit
Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?
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Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
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Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,-One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.
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LEONATOWell, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband. BEATRICENot till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? To make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.
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Women may fall when there's no strength in men. Act II
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DON PEDROCome, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick. BEATRICEIndeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one: marry, once before he won it of me with false dice, therefore your grace may well say I have lost it. DON PEDROYou have put him down, lady, you have put him down. BEATRICESo I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I should prove the mother of fools.
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He reads much; He is a great observer and he looksQuite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sortAs if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spiritThat could be moved to smile at any thing. Such men as he be never at heart's easeWhiles they behold a greater than themselves, And therefore are they very dangerous.
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Men should be what they seem.
Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
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