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As You Like It

Readers and audiences have long greeted As You Like It with delight. Its characters are brilliant conversationalists, including the princesses Rosalind and Celia and their Fool, Touchstone. Soon after Rosalind and Orlando meet and fall in love, the

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William Shakespeare (6)

“Sweet are the uses of adversity, which like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.”

— William Shakespeare, amazon.com

Tagged: strength

“Time travels at different speeds for different people. I can tell you who time strolls for, who it trots for, who it gallops for, and who it stops cold for.”

— William Shakespeare, amazon.com

Tagged: shakespeare, Time, differences

“Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.”

— William Shakespeare, amazon.com

Tagged: Friendship, Love, shakespeare, Lies

“Love is merely a madness.”

— William Shakespeare, amazon.com

Tagged: shakespeare, Love, Insanity

“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”

— William Shakespeare, amazon.com

Tagged: shakespeare, Life, humanity

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

— William Shakespeare, amazon.com

Tagged: Wisdom, Fools, stupidity, shakespeare