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A name unmusical to the Volscians' ears,
And harsh in sound to thine.

      — Coriolanus, Act IV Scene 5

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KEYWORD: avoid

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Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Don Pedro

85

Good Signior Leonato, you are come to meet your
trouble: the fashion of the world is to avoid
cost, and you encounter it.

2

Much Ado about Nothing
[V, 1]

Leonato

2331

Which is the villain? let me see his eyes,
That, when I note another man like him,
I may avoid him: which of these is he?

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