Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears

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From the play Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare, the first line of a speech in which Mark Antony addresses the crowd at Caesar's funeral.

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You just travel light with carry-on luggage, go to cities that you love, and get to hang out with all your friends.
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I was sick in street gutters, onto my desk, at dinners with friends.
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I was friends with her drummer from Sleater-Kinney, and I met Carrie, and we just hit it off.
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Drowned every few seconds by our tremendous salvoes, this more nervous noise crept back insistently into our ears in the interval.
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The young man from far away had not, so far as he knew, either enemies or friends at Monte Carlo.
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That evening in the gondola, with one old and two newer friends, is marked with a white stone in my recollection.
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Monsieur,” growls the baron, “stone walls have ears, you say if only they had tongues; what tales these could tell!
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The noise of the hammer is always in his ears, and his eye is upon the pattern of the vessel he maketh.
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