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A gentleman, nurse, that loves to hear himself talk, and will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.

      — Romeo and Juliet, Act II Scene 4

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Othello
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Iago

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What,
If I had said I had seen him do you wrong?
Or heard him say,—as knaves be such abroad,
Who having, by their own importunate suit,
Or voluntary dotage of some mistress,
Convinced or supplied them, cannot choose
But they must blab—

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