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Triumphs for nothing and lamenting toys
Is jollity for apes and grief for boys.

      — Cymbeline, Act IV Scene 2

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Julius Caesar
[II, 2]

Calpurnia

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Alas, my lord,
Your wisdom is consumed in confidence.
Do not go forth to-day: call it my fear
That keeps you in the house, and not your own.
We'll send Mark Antony to the senate-house:
And he shall say you are not well to-day:
Let me, upon my knee, prevail in this.

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