For it falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we…

William Shakespeare
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For it falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us While it was ours. ✨ William Shakespeare (2016). The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works, p.1486, Oxford University Press
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