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Ships are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.

William Shakespeare

I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you. What news on the Rialto? -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.

William Shakespeare

I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. He hates our sacred nation, and he rails, Even there where merchants most do congregate. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.

William Shakespeare

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.

William Shakespeare

A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath! -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.

William Shakespeare

Many a time and oft In the Rialto you have rated me. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.

William Shakespeare

For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.

William Shakespeare

You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.

William Shakespeare

Shall I bend low, and in a bondman's key, With bated breath and whispering humbleness. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.

William Shakespeare

For when did friendship take A breed for barren metal of his friend? -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.

William Shakespeare

O father Abram! what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect The thoughts of others! -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.

William Shakespeare

Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadow'd livery of the burnish'd sun. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 1.

William Shakespeare

The young gentleman, according to Fates and Destinies and such odd sayings, the Sisters Three and such branches of learning, is indeed deceased; or, as you would say in plain terms, gone to heaven. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.

William Shakespeare

The very staff of my age, my very prop. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.

William Shakespeare

It is a wise father that knows his own child. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.

William Shakespeare

An honest exceeding poor man. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.

William Shakespeare

Truth will come to sight; murder cannot be hid long. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.

William Shakespeare

In the twinkling of an eye. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.

William Shakespeare

And the vile squeaking of the wry-necked fife. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 5.

William Shakespeare

All things that are, Are with more spirit chased than enjoy'd. How like a younker or a prodigal The scarfed bark puts from her native bay, Hugg'd and embraced by the strumpet wind! How like the prodigal doth she return, With over-weather'd ribs and ragged sails, Lean, rent, and beggar'd by the strumpet wind! -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 6.

William Shakespeare

Must I hold a candle to my shames? -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 6.

William Shakespeare

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 6.

William Shakespeare

All that glisters is not gold. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 7.

William Shakespeare

Young in limbs, in judgment old. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 7.

William Shakespeare

Even in the force and road of casualty. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 9.

William Shakespeare

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