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- abuse
- achievement
- advantage/benefit
- adversity
- advice
- age/experience
- ambition
- anger
- appearance
- authority
- betrayal
- blame
- business
- caution
- cited in law
- civility
- claim
- clarity/precision
- communication
- complaint
- concern
- conflict
- conscience
- consequence
- conspiracy
- contract
- corruption
- courage
- custom
- death
- debt/obligation
- deceit
- defence
- dignity
- disappointment
- discovery
- dispute
- duty
- emotion and mood
- envy
- equality
- error
- evidence
- excess
- failure
- fashion/trends
- fate/destiny
- flattery
- flaw/fault
- foul play
- free will
- friendship
- good and bad
- grief
- guilt
- gullibility
- haste
- honesty
- honour
- hope/optimism
- identity
- imagination
- independence
- ingratitude
- innocence
- insult
- integrity
- intellect
- invented or popularised
- judgment
- justice
- justification
- language
- law/legal
- lawyers
- leadership
- learning/education
- legacy
- life
- love
- loyalty
- madness
- manipulation
- marriage
- memory
- mercy
- merit
- misc.
- misquoted
- money
- nature
- negligence
- news
- offence
- order/society
- opportunity
- patience
- perception
- persuasion
- pity
- plans/intentions
- poverty and wealth
- preparation
- pride
- promise
- proverbs and idioms
- purpose
- punishment
- reason
- regret
- relationship
- remedy
- reputation
- respect
- resolution
- revenge
- reply
- risk
- rivalry
- ruin
- satisfaction
- secrecy
- security
- skill/talent
- sorrow
- status
- still in use
- suspicion
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- time
- trust
- truth
- uncertainty
- understanding
- unity/collaboration
- value
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QUOTES FROM THE BARD
Adversity’s sweet milk, philosophy
Oh, thou wilt speak again of banishment.
FRIAR LAWRENCE
I’ll give thee armor to keep off that word—
Adversity’s sweet milk, philosophy—
To comfort thee though thou art banishèd.
ROMEO
Yet “banishèd”? Hang up philosophy!
Unless philosophy can make a Juliet,
Displant a town, reverse a prince’s doom,
It helps not, it prevails not. Talk no more. DUTCH: k Geef u een harnas, waar dat woord op afstuit,
De zoetste melk in ‘t leed: philosophie,
Die u, al zijt gij balling, troosten zal.
MORE: Schmidt:
Displant=transplant, transpose Topics: punishment
How, how, how, how? Chopped logic! What is this?
PLAY: Romeo and Juliet
ACT/SCENE: 3.5
SPEAKER: Capulet
CONTEXT:
How, how, how, how? Chopped logic! What is this?
“Proud,” and “I thank you,” and “I thank you not,”
And yet “not proud”? Mistress minion you,
Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds,
DUTCH:
Zie, wat spitsvondig nest! wat praat is dit?
MORE:
Contranym. Either (1) to argue skilfully with sophisticated reasoning or (2) to advance an illogical argument, usually overcomplicated.
Onions:
Chop-logic: contentious sophistical arguer. (Q1 “chop logicke,” but the rest “chopt logic,” which would naturally mean ‘sophistical or contentious argument’).
Topics: reason, justification, plans/intentions
I have more care to stay than will to go.
PLAY: Romeo and Juliet
ACT/SCENE: 3.5
SPEAKER: Romeo
CONTEXT:
Nor that is not the lark, whose notes do beat
The vaulty heaven so high above our heads.
I have more care to stay than will to go.
Come, death, and welcome! Juliet wills it so.—
How is ’t, my soul? Let’s talk. It is not day.
DUTCH:
O zalig blijven! bitter is ‘t vaarwel;
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Topics: death, plans/intentions, free will
Was ever book containing such vile matter
So fairly bound?
PLAY: Romeo and Juliet
ACT/SCENE: 3.2
SPEAKER: Juliet
CONTEXT:
Was ever book containing such vile matter
So fairly bound? Oh, that deceit should dwell
In such a gorgeous palace!
DUTCH:
Wie gaf een boek van zulk een snooden inhoud
Ooit zulk een schoonen band?
MORE:
Topics: deceit, appearance
O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle
PLAY: Romeo and Juliet
ACT/SCENE: 3.5
SPEAKER: Juliet
CONTEXT:
O fortune, fortune! All men call thee fickle.
If thou art fickle, what dost thou with him
That is renowned for faith? Be fickle, fortune,
For then, I hope, thou wilt not keep him long,
But send him back.
DUTCH:
Fortuin, fortuin! een ieder noemt u wuft!
En zijt gij wuft, wat doet ge dan met hem,
Die zich getrouw betoont? Wees wuft, Fortuin
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Compleat:
Fickle=Wispeltuurig, veranderlyk, wuft, ongestadig
Topics: fate/destiny, loyalty