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Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove;
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

— William Shakespeare Sonnet CXVI (1609)

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Time's glory is to calm contending kings,
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I am a man,
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And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts.

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To be or not to be, that is the question.

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