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“I do love you…”

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“more than words can wield the matter.”

Goneril

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“nothing will come…”

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“of nothing. Speak again.”

Lear

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“come not between the…”

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“dragon and his wrath.”

Lear

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“when majesty falls…”

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“to folly.”

Kent

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“freedom lives…”

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“hence and banishment is here.”

Kent

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“I cannot heave…”

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“my heart into my mouth.”

Cordelia

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“he hath ever but…”

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“slenderly known himself.”

Regan

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“my mind as generous…”

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“and my shape as true.”

Edmund

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“we make guilty of our disasters…”

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“the sun, the moon and the stars as if we were villains by necessity.”

Edmund

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“Now, gods, stand up for bastards! I only…”

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“worship what’s natural, not what’s manmade.”

Edmund

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“it is hard but I hope his…”

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“heart is not in the contents.”

Edmund

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“on whose foolish…”

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“honesty, my practices ride easy.”

Edmund

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“how far your eyes…”

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“may pierce I cannot tell.”

Albany

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“leave thy drink…”

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“and thy whore.”

Fool

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“and from her derogate…”

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“body never spring another babe to honour her.”

Lear

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“how sharper than a serpent’s…”

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“tooth it is to have a thankless child.”

Lear

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‘keep me in…”

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“temper, I would not be mad.”

Lear

18
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“you see me here, you gods…”

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“a poor old man, as full of grief as age, wretched in both.”

Lear

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“a disease that’s in my…”

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“flesh which I must needs call mine.”

Lear

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“-I will do such things - what they are…”

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“yet I know not, but they shall be the terrors of the earth.”

Lear

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“o fool,…”

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“I shall go mad.”

Lear

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“a poor, infirm, weak…”

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“and despised old man.”

Lear

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“I am a man more…”

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“sinned against than sinning.”

Lear

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“the younger rises…”

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“when the old doth fall.”

Edmund

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“the tempest in my mind…”

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“doth from my senses take all feeling else.”

Lear

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“I am a very…”

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“foolish, fond, old man.”

Lear

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“I fear I am not in my…”

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“perfect mind.”

Lear

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“as flies to wanton boys…”

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“we are to th’Gods, they kill us for their sport.”

Gloucester

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“pray you undo…”

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“this button, thank you Sir.”

Lear

30
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“blow winds…”

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“and crack your cheeks.”

Lear

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“I am a King,…”

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“my masters, know you that?”

Lear

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“nor are those empty-…”

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“hearted, whose low sounds reverb no hollowness.”

Kent

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“who is it that…”

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“can tell me who I am?”

Lear

34
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“see better…”

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“Lear.”

Kent

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“My life I never…”

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“held but as pawn.”

Kent