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Shakespeare explored numerous themes in his plays, poems and sonnets. Many are referenced on this site but this list is neither comprehensive nor authoritative. Use the Quick Links dropdown at right to jump directly to a theme that interests you. Or perform advance searches at Search & Filter Quotes and Notes, where you can combine themes such as Love and Marriage. And that search can be further refined by combining it with other fields, such as a character search on Juliet.

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Acting

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Adultery

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Advice

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Alliance

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Ambition

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Angels

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Animals

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Antisemitism

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Appearance and Reality

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Appearances

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Assassination

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Astrology

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Attraction

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Authority

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Banishment

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Barbarity

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Bastards

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Beauty

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Betrayal

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Birds

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Birth

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Blindness

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Bragging

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Brothers

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Calumny

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Character

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Children

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Civil Discord

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Clothing

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Companionship

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Confidence

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Conscience

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Consistency

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Conspiracy

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Constancy

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Contentment

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Courage

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Court & Country

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Cowardice

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Cruelty

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Curses

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Customs

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Dancing

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Darkness

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Death

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Deceit

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Defeat

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Deformity

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Demons

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Despair

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Destiny

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Devil

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Disguise

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Doubt

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Dreams

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Dress

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Drinking

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Duplicity

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Economics

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Education

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Elements

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Empathy

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Equivocation

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Evil

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Fairies

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Faith

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Fall from Fortune

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Fall from Virtue

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Falling from Fortune

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False Fronts

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False Love

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Family

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Fashion

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Fate

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Fear

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Feuds

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Fickleness

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Fidelity

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Fire

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Flattery

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Flowers

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Folly

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Fools

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Forgiveness

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Fortune

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Freedom

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Friendship

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Gardens

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Gender

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Genius

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Ghosts

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Glory

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Good & Bad

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Grace

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Greed

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Grief

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Guile

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Guilt

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Hair

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Happiness

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Hate

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Hell

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Heroism

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Homosexuality

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Honesty

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Honor

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Humility

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Humors

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Hunger

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Hypocrisy

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Identity

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Ignorance

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Illusion

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Imagination

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Immigrants

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Inequity

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Infidelity

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Ingratitude

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Innocence

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Jealousy

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Joy

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Justice

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Kindness

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Kisses

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Knowledge and Uncertainty

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Laughter

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Law

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Leadership

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Learning

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Learning by Loss

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Lechery

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Leniency

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Liberty

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Life

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Love

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Loyalty

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Lust

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Madness

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Manhood

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Marriage

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Masks

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Melancholy

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Mercy

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Mirrors

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Misery

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Moderation

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Modesty

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Monarchs and Subjects

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Money

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Morality

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Morning

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Mortality

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Murder

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Music

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Names

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Nature

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Night

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Nobility

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Nothingness

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Oaths

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Old Age

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Opportunity

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Parents

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Partings

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Passion

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Peace

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Pity

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Plague

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Poetry

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Politics

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Power

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Power of Mind

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Prayers

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Prejudice

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Pride

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Prophecy

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Quarrel

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Race

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Regrets

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Religion

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Repentance

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Responsibility

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Revenge

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Sadness

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Safety

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Saints

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Seasons

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Seduction

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Self Awareness

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Self Control

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Self Interest

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Self Loathing

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Self Love

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Self Pity

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Self Promotion

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Self Reliance

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Severity

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Sex

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Sexual Harassment

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Shadows

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Shame

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Sighs

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Silence

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Sin

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Singing

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Sleep

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Smiles

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Social Order

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Songs

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Sorrow

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Speed

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Spells

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Spirits

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Spring

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Status

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Storms

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Suffering

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Suicide

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Summer

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Superficiality

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Superstition

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Temptation

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Thanks

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Theater

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Theft

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Thoughts

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Time

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Tolerance

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Torture

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Transmutation

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Trust

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Truth

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Tyranny

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Valor

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Vanity

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Vice

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Victory

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Villainy

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Violence

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Virtue

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War

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Water

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Weakness

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Wealth

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Weather

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Weddings

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Wisdom

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Wit

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Witchcraft

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Women

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Wooing

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Words

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Worse and Worst

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Youth

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