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Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do.
William Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare
Age: 51 †
Born: 1564
Born: April 26
Died: 1616
Died: April 23
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Stratford-upon-Avon
Warwickshire
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William Shakspere
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