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ROMEO:          Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much.
MERCUTIO:       No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide
                        as a church-door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve.

Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
                -- William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar"

She is not refined.  She is not unrefined.  She keeps a parrot.
                -- Mark Twain

Sheriff Chameleotoptor sighed with an air of weary sadness, and then
turned to Doppelgutt and said 'The Senator must really have been on a
bender this time -- he left a party in Cleveland, Ohio, at 11:30 last
night, and they found his car this morning in the smokestack of a British
aircraft carrier in the Formosa Straits.'
                -- Grand Panjandrum's Special Award, 1985 Bulwer-Lytton
                   bad fiction contest.

Small things make base men proud.
                -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"

So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie;
and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street pops its head
into the shop. "What! no soap?" So he died, and she very imprudently
married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Grand
Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top, and they all
fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gunpowder ran
out at the heels of their boots.
                -- Samuel Foote

So so is good, very good, very excellent good:
and yet it is not; it is but so so.
                -- William Shakespeare, "As You Like It"

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more
deadly in the long run.
                -- Mark Twain

Something's rotten in the state of Denmark.
                -- Shakespeare

Sometimes I wonder if I'm in my right mind.  Then it passes off and I'm
as intelligent as ever.
                -- Samuel Beckett, "Endgame"