A Dictionary of Shakespearian Quotations

Every human feeling, answered by Shakespeare: an 1892 dictionary that files the Bard's best lines under the passions they express — from Ambition to Woe.

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Possession: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

Have is have, however men do catch.— K. J. i. 1.

And Deprivation

For it so falls out, That what we have, we prize not to the worth, Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value; then we find The virtue, that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.— M. A. iv. 1
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