The breaking of so great a thing should make A greater crack: the roun…

William Shakespeare
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The breaking of so great a thing should make A greater crack: the round world Should have shook lions into civil streets, And citizens to their dens. ✨ William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, p.260
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