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The Merchant of Venice

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“Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them: and when you have them, they are not worth the search.”
— Bassanio, l. 114
“I fear he will prove the weeping philosopher when he grows old, being so full of unmannerly sadness in his youth.”
— Portia, l. 45
“Ships are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves.”
— Shylock, l. 20
“I’ll take my leave of the Jew in the twinkling of an eye.”
— Launcelot Gobbo, l. 154
“I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear! would she were hearsed at my foot, and the ducats in her coffin!”
— Shylock, l. 75
“This night methinks is but the daylight sick.”
— Portia, l. 124

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“Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them: and when you have them, they are not worth the search.”
— Bassanio, l. 114
“I fear he will prove the weeping philosopher when he grows old, being so full of unmannerly sadness in his youth.”
— Portia, l. 45
“Ships are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves.”
— Shylock, l. 20
“I’ll take my leave of the Jew in the twinkling of an eye.”
— Launcelot Gobbo, l. 154
“I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear! would she were hearsed at my foot, and the ducats in her coffin!”
— Shylock, l. 75
“This night methinks is but the daylight sick.”
— Portia, l. 124

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.