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“Give the gods a thankful sacrifice. When it pleaseth their deities to take the wife of a man from him, it shows to man the tailors of the earth.” — Antony and Cleopatra. |
“A tailor makes a man?” “Aye, a tailor, sir.” — Lear. |
“Eemember how Master Feeble, ‘the forcible Feeble,’ proved himself the best of Falstaff’s recruits ; with what discretion Robin Starveling played the part of Thisby's mother before the Duke, and do not forget to their credit the public spirit of the tailors of Tooley Street.” — Orielana. |
“I have an honest lad to my taylor, who I never knew guilty of one truth — no, not when it had been to his advantage not to lye.” — Montaigne. |
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“Escape in death from obloquy I sought, |
“The pitiful, pitiless knife.” — Tennyson. |
“Oh! happy dagger.” — Juliet. |
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