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He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink.

      — Love's Labour's Lost, Act IV Scene 2

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Othello
[I, 1]

Brabantio

152

Strike on the tinder, ho!
Give me a taper! call up all my people!
This accident is not unlike my dream:
Belief of it oppresses me already.
Light, I say! light!

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Othello
[IV, 1]

Lodovico

2712

Is this the noble Moor whom our full senate
Call all in all sufficient? Is this the nature
Whom passion could not shake? whose solid virtue
The shot of accident, nor dart of chance,
Could neither graze nor pierce?

3

Othello
[IV, 2]

Iago

2995

O, no; he goes into Mauritania and takes away with
him the fair Desdemona, unless his abode be
lingered here by some accident: wherein none can be
so determinate as the removing of Cassio.

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