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		dmd 45 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Let us git rid of it, angry GitHub users say of fo... GLENDOWER: I can call spirits from the vasty deep. HOTSPUR: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them?

hodgesrm 44 days ago [–]

Ah, one of my all-time favorite Shakespeare quotes. Another is:

"How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!“

My father used it frequently when we were kids. I found out decades later it was a quote from King Lear.

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