Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up tine, supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills. β¨ William Shakespeare, Gayle Holste (2002). Othello, p.68, Barron's Educational Series
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- Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached. β¨ William Shakespeare (2014). Twelfth Night: Third Series, p.303, Bloomsbury Publishing
- My father's wit, and my mother's tongue, assist me! β¨ William Shakespeare (1805). The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by George Steevens: Wit β¦ βΆ
- Let men say we be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal. β¨ William Shakespeare (1833). The plays and poems β¦ βΆ
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