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'T is all men's office to speak patience
To those that wring under the load of sorrow,
But no man's virtue nor sufficiency
To be so moral when he shall endure
The like himself.

      — Much Ado about Nothing, Act V Scene 1

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KEYWORD: proper

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King Lear
[I, 1]

Earl of Kent

15

I cannot wish the fault undone, the issue of it being so
proper.

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King Lear
[IV, 2]

Duke of Albany

2405

See thyself, devil!
Proper deformity seems not in the fiend
So horrid as in woman.

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