With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer,
not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I dispise so entirely
as I despise Shakespeare.
George Bernard Shaw
I remember, the Players have often mentioned it as an
honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing,
(whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line.
My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
Ben Jonson, on William Shakespeare
Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
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