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To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.

      — Much Ado about Nothing, Act III Scene 3

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Merry Wives of Windsor
[V, 5]

Falstaff

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I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the
oil that's in me should set hell on fire; he would
never else cross me thus.
[Enter SIR HUGH EVANS, disguised as before; PISTOL,]
as Hobgoblin; MISTRESS QUICKLY, ANNE PAGE, and
others, as Fairies, with tapers]

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