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But I remember now I am in this earthly world, where to do harm Is often laudable, to do good sometime Accounted dangerous folly.

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William Shakespeare
Age: 51 †
Born: 1564
Born: April 26
Died: 1616
Died: April 23
Actor
Dramaturge
Playwright
Poet
Stage Actor
Writer
Stratford-upon-Avon
Warwickshire
Shakespeare
The Bard
The Bard of Avon
William Shakspere
Swan of Avon
Bard of Avon
Shakespere
Shakespear
Shakspeare
Shackspeare
William Shake‐ſpeare
Often
Laudable
Remember
Accounted
Good
Sometime
World
Earthly
Folly
Stupidity
Harm
Dangerous

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