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Shakespeare Quotes by Work: King Lear

  1. As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods
  2. Come, let's away to prison; We two alone will sing
  3. Every inch a king
  4. Fortune's fool
  5. Full circle
  6. He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf
  7. How sharper than a serpent's tooth
  8. More sinned against than sinning
  9. Nothing can come of nothing
  10. Take physic, pomp
  11. That way madness lies
  12. We came crying hither

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