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With this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature.
William Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare
Age: 51 †
Born: 1564
Born: April 26
Died: 1616
Died: April 23
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Cheerily to sea the signs of war advance: No king of England, if not king of France
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A tardiness in nature, Which often leaves the history unspoke, That it intends to do.
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Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear.
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