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== Quotes about the play ==
{{quote|''The Merchant of Venice'' makes a lot of modern audiences uncomfortable with its episodes of virulent prejudice, alternating with a love story that seems almost like a fairy tale.
|"Hoffman opts for mild-mannered Shylock in 'The Merchant of Venice' on Broadway", Associated Press, December 22, 1989}}
== Quotes from the play ==
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==== Scene vi ====
{{quote|All things that are,
Are with more spirit chased than enjoy’d.
How like a younker, or a prodigal,
The scarfed bark puts from her native bay,
Hugg’d and embraced by the strumpet wind!
How like the prodigal doth she return,
With over-weather’d ribs and ragged sails,
Lean, rent, and beggar’d by the strumpet wind!
The pretty follies that themselves commit.
▲** '''Gratiano,''' scene vi
|'''Jessica'''}}
{{quote|For she is wise, if I can judge of her,
▲* But love is blind, and lovers cannot see<br>The pretty follies that themselves commit.
And fair she is, if that mine eyes be true,
▲** '''Jessica,''' scene vi
And true she is, as she hath proved herself,
And therefore, like herself, wise, fair and true,
Shall she be placed in my constant soul.
▲* Must I hold a candle to my shames?
==== Scene vii ====
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==== Scene viii ====
{{quote|'''Salerino:''' I saw Bassanio and Antonio part:
Bassanio told him he would make some speed
Of his return: he answer'd, 'Do not so;
Slubber not business for my sake, Bassanio
But stay the very riping of the time;
And for the Jew's bond which he hath of me,
Let it not enter in your mind of love:
Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts
To courtship and such fair ostents of love
As shall conveniently become you there:'
And even there, his eye being big with tears,
Turning his face, he put his hand behind him,
And with affection wondrous sensible
He wrung Bassanio's hand; and so they parted.
'''Solanio:''' I think he only loves the world for him.}}
==== Scene ix ====
{{quote|''The fire seven times tried this;
▲* Even in the force and road of casualty.
Seven times tried that judgment is,
▲** '''Prince of Arragon,''' scene ix
That did never choose miss.
Some there be that shadow's kiss,
And have but a shadow's bliss.
There be fools alive, iwis,
Silver'd o'er, and so was this.
Take what wife you will to bed,
I will ever be your head:
So be gone; you are sped.''
▲** '''Prince of Arragon,''' reading Portia's note, scene ix
▲* Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.
▲** '''Nerissa,''' scene ix
===Act IV===
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