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“The continuance of our passions is no more in our own power than the term of our life.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (16131680)
“O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious, periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise. I would have such a fellow whipped for oerdoing Termagant. It out-Herods Herod. Pray you avoid it.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
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