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1  I think our father will hence tonight.
King Lear By William Shakespeare
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2  Which they will make an obedient father.
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3  To his father, that so tenderly and entirely loves him.
King Lear By William Shakespeare
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4  Edmund, I hear that you have shown your father A childlike office.
King Lear By William Shakespeare
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5  I am sorry, then, you have so lost a father That you must lose a husband.
King Lear By William Shakespeare
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6  My father hath set guard to take my brother; And I have one thing, of a queasy question, Which I must act.
King Lear By William Shakespeare
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7  My father watches: O sir, fly this place; Intelligence is given where you are hid; You have now the good advantage of the night.
King Lear By William Shakespeare
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8  I have been with your father, and given him notice that the Duke of Cornwall and Regan his Duchess will be here with him this night.
King Lear By William Shakespeare
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9  Royal Lear, Whom I have ever honour'd as my king, Lov'd as my father, as my master follow'd, As my great patron thought on in my prayers.
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10  Love well our father: To your professed bosoms I commit him: But yet, alas, stood I within his grace, I would prefer him to a better place.
King Lear By William Shakespeare
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11  Pray you let us hit together: if our father carry authority with such disposition as he bears, this last surrender of his will but offend us.
King Lear By William Shakespeare
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12  This villain of mine comes under the prediction; there's son against father: the King falls from bias of nature; there's father against child.
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13  My father compounded with my mother under the dragon's tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows I am rough and lecherous.
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14  The jewels of our father, with wash'd eyes Cordelia leaves you: I know you what you are; And like a sister am most loath to call Your faults as they are nam'd.
King Lear By William Shakespeare
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15  Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide: in cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in palaces, treason; and the bond cracked 'twixt son and father.'
King Lear By William Shakespeare
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16  But I have heard him oft maintain it to be fit that, sons at perfect age, and fathers declined, the father should be as ward to the son, and the son manage his revenue.
King Lear By William Shakespeare
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17  Sir, I love you more than word can wield the matter; Dearer than eyesight, space, and liberty; Beyond what can be valu'd, rich or rare; No less than life, with grace, health, beauty, honour; As much as child e'er lov'd, or father found; A love that makes breath poor and speech unable; Beyond all manner of so much I love you.
King Lear By William Shakespeare
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