And there was never a better time to delve for pleasure in language than the sixteenth century, when novelty blew through English like a spring breeze. Some twelve thousand words, a phenomenal number, entered the language between 1500 and 1650, about half of them still...
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Bill Bryson
O! Learn to read what silent love hath writ:to hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit.
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William Shakespeare
What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts...
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William Shakespeare
Conscience doth make cowards of us all.
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William Shakespeare