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Fool in All's Well

I am out o’ friends, madam

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Fool
I am out o’ friends, madam, and I hope to have
friends for my wife’s sake.
Countess
Such friends are thine enemies, knave.

for young Charbon the Puritan and old
Poysam the Papist, howsome’er their hearts are
severed in religion, their heads are both one

Fool
You’re shallow,
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O my knave, how does my old lady?

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Parolles
O my knave, how does my old lady?
Fool
So that you had her wrinkles and I her money, I
would she did as you say.
Parolles
Why, I say nothing.

To say nothing, to do nothing, to know nothing, and
to have nothing is to be a great part of your title

Fool
Marry,
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Source:
Act 2
Scene 4
Line 17

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No, no, no, your son was misled

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Lafew
No, no, no, your son was misled with a
snipped-taffeta fellow there, whose villainous saffron
would have made all the unbaked and doughy
youth of a nation in his color. Your daughter-in-law
had been alive at this hour, and your son here
at home, more advanced by the King than by that
red-tailed humble-bee I speak of.
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Source:
Act 4
Scene 5
Line 37

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