All the world's a stage
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The beginning of a speech in the play As You Like It, by William Shakespeare. It is also called “The Seven Ages of Man,” because it treats that many periods in a man's life: his years as infant, schoolboy, lover, soldier, judge, foolish old man, and finally “second childishness and mere oblivion.” The speech begins: “All the world's a stage, / And all the men and women merely players....”
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The rainy weather could not ________ my elated spirits on my graduation day.
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all there, all the same, all the thing, all the time, all the way, All the world's a stage, all the worse, all thumbs, all-time, all told, all to the good
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