Show the world 
what they want to see 
not 
what you want to do

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it&#39;s own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one&#39;s thoughts.

Who am I without you ? Who are you without me ? Who are we? We are empty but free just to be who we want to be. Without me you are free but will remain empty.

Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more

And my poor fool is hanged. No, no life. / Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, / And thou no breath at all? O, thou wilt come no more. / Never, never, never. Pray you, undo / This button. Thank you, sir. O, O, O, O!

Albany had declared that “All friends shall taste / The wages of their virtue, and all foes / The cup of their deservings” (24.297–99).

Sonnet 55 that “Not marble nor the gilded monuments / Of princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme” [1–2]).

James Shapiro

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