"Crowns have their compass-length of days their date- Triumphs their tomb-felicity, her fate- Of nought but earth can earth make us partaker, But knowledge makes a king most like his Maker."

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Source: William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1858). “Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems”, p.171

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William Shakespeare

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William Shakespeare was an English playwright and poet, renowned for his profound exploration of human emotions in works like 'Hamlet' and 'Othello.'

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