(Pedro:) Your silence most offends me, and to be merry best becomes you for out o' question you were born in a merry hour. (Beatrice:) No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there was a star danced, and under that was I born.

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

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Therefore they thought it good for hear a play And frame your mind to mirth and merriment, Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.

— William Shakespeare

I am not merry; but I do beguile The thing I am by seeming otherwise.

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(Pedro:) In faith, lady, you have a merry heart. (Beatrice:) Yea, my lord; I thank it, poor fool, it keeps on the windy side of care.

— William Shakespeare

For the heavens, he shows me where the bachelors sit, and there live we as merry as the day is long.

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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come, And let my liver rather heat with wine Than my heart cool with mortifying groans.

— William Shakespeare