To bait fish withal: if it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies; and what's his reason? I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs,dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge. The villany you teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
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supplants us all in the long run. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If I shall be condemned
Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else
But what your jealousies awake... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to com... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My plenteous joys,
Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves
In drops of sorrow. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet 'tis greater skill
In a true hate to pray they have their will;
The very devils cannot pla... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How use doth breed a habit in a man!
This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,
I better brook t... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The miserable have no other medicine But only hope. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-w... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE