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Chapter 3: QUESTION II. WHAT QUALITY OR QUALITIES IN OTHERS AMONG YOU?
By William Shakespeare
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A parlor-game anthology that collects short lines from Shakespeare's plays and arranges them as answers to ten conversational prompts. Each prompt—covering identity, admired qualities, occupations, aversions, styles of beauty, ideals, first meetings and greetings, wishes, and futures—offers twenty numbered quotations cited by play and scene. Readers are invited to select responses to compose quick character portraits or to prompt social play, using dramatic utterances to suggest temperament, desire, and fate. The arrangement functions as both a compact quotation compendium and a playful instrument for improvisation, showcasing the variety of moods and voices across the dramatic works.

QUESTION II.
 
WHAT QUALITY OR QUALITIES IN OTHERS AMONG YOU?

1.  A quietness of spirit.
Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Scene 1.
2.  Good, your highness, patience.
Antony and Cleopatra. Act ii. Scene 5.
3.  Faint deeds, hollow welcomes,
Recanting goodness, sorry ere ’t is shown.
Timon of Athens. Act i. Scene 2.
4.  Liberal thanks.
Antony and Cleopatra. Act ii. Scene 6.
5.  Shallow spirit of judgment.
Henry VI. Part I. Act ii. Scene 4.
6.  That glib and oily art,
To speak and purpose not.
King Lear. Act i. Scene 1.
7.  The slanderous tongue.
Measure for Measure. Act iii. Scene 2.
8.  A patient sufferance.
Much Ado About Nothing. Act i. Scene 3.
9.  Sweet words,
Low crooked curt’sies, and base spaniel fawning.
Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Scene 1.
10.  Defect of manners, want of government,
Pride, haughtiness, opinion, and disdain.
Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Scene 1.
11.  Ingratitude!
King Lear. Act i. Scene 4.
12.  Back-wounding calumny.
Measure for Measure. Act iii. Scene 2.
13.  Modest stillness and humility.
Henry V. Act iii. Scene 1.
14.  Self-harming jealousy!
Comedy of Errors. Act ii. Scene 1.
15.  Fear and doting.
Antony and Cleopatra. Act iii. Scene 9.
16.  Vaulting ambition.
Macbeth. Act i. Scene 7.
17.  Scorn, and defiance; slight regard, contempt.
Henry V. Act ii. Scene 4.
18.  Vainness, and self-glorious pride.
Henry V. Act v. Chorus.
19.  A base, ignoble mind.
Henry VI. Part II. Act ii. Scene 1.
20.  A mind impatient,
An understanding simple and unschool’d.
Hamlet. Act i. Scene 2.