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1 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 3] |
Maria |
136 |
Ay, but he'll have but a year in all these ducats:
he's a very fool and a prodigal.
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2 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 3] |
Maria |
142 |
He hath indeed, almost natural: for besides that
he's a fool, he's a great quarreller: and but that
he hath the gift of a coward to allay the gust he
hath in quarrelling, 'tis thought among the prudent
he would quickly have the gift of a grave.
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3 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Feste |
323 |
Wit, an't be thy will, put me into good fooling!
Those wits, that think they have thee, do very oft
prove fools; and I, that am sure I lack thee, may
pass for a wise man: for what says Quinapalus?
'Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.'
[Enter OLIVIA with MALVOLIO]
God bless thee, lady!
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4 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Olivia |
330 |
Take the fool away.
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5 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Olivia |
332 |
Go to, you're a dry fool; I'll no more of you:
besides, you grow dishonest.
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6 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Feste |
334 |
Two faults, madonna, that drink and good counsel
will amend: for give the dry fool drink, then is
the fool not dry: bid the dishonest man mend
himself; if he mend, he is no longer dishonest; if
he cannot, let the botcher mend him. Any thing
that's mended is but patched: virtue that
transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that
amends is but patched with virtue. If that this
simple syllogism will serve, so; if it will not,
what remedy? As there is no true cuckold but
calamity, so beauty's a flower. The lady bade take
away the fool; therefore, I say again, take her away.
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7 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Feste |
347 |
Misprision in the highest degree! Lady, cucullus non
facit monachum; that's as much to say as I wear not
motley in my brain. Good madonna, give me leave to
prove you a fool.
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8 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Olivia |
358 |
Good fool, for my brother's death.
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9 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Olivia |
360 |
I know his soul is in heaven, fool.
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10 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Feste |
361 |
The more fool, madonna, to mourn for your brother's
soul being in heaven. Take away the fool, gentlemen.
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11 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Olivia |
363 |
What think you of this fool, Malvolio? doth he not mend?
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12 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Malvolio |
364 |
Yes, and shall do till the pangs of death shake him:
infirmity, that decays the wise, doth ever make the
better fool.
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13 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Feste |
367 |
God send you, sir, a speedy infirmity, for the
better increasing your folly! Sir Toby will be
sworn that I am no fox; but he will not pass his
word for two pence that you are no fool.
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14 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Malvolio |
372 |
I marvel your ladyship takes delight in such a
barren rascal: I saw him put down the other day
with an ordinary fool that has no more brain
than a stone. Look you now, he's out of his guard
already; unless you laugh and minister occasion to
him, he is gagged. I protest, I take these wise men,
that crow so at these set kind of fools, no better
than the fools' zanies.
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15 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Olivia |
380 |
Oh, you are sick of self-love, Malvolio, and taste
with a distempered appetite. To be generous,
guiltless and of free disposition, is to take those
things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets:
there is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do
nothing but rail; nor no railing in a known discreet
man, though he do nothing but reprove.
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16 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Feste |
404 |
Thou hast spoke for us, madonna, as if thy eldest
son should be a fool; whose skull Jove cram with
brains! for,—here he comes,—one of thy kin has a
most weak pia mater.
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17 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Olivia |
421 |
What's a drunken man like, fool?
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18 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Feste |
422 |
Like a drowned man, a fool and a mad man: one
draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads
him; and a third drowns him.
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19 |
Twelfth Night
[I, 5] |
Feste |
428 |
He is but mad yet, madonna; and the fool shall look
to the madman.
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20 |
Twelfth Night
[II, 3] |
Sir Andrew Aguecheek |
716 |
Here comes the fool, i' faith.
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