If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have diffe…

Virginia Woolf
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If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs? ✨ Virginia Woolf (2015). To the Lighthouse, p.33, Virginia Woolf
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