LIII.What is the holiness of conversation? It isto master death.

Anne Carson
LIII.What is the holiness of conversation? It isto master death.
LIII.What is the holiness of conversation? It isto master death.
LIII.What is the holiness of conversation? It isto master death.
LIII.What is the holiness of conversation? It isto master death.
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This is a quotation by the English playwright William Shakespeare. It also appears in two of his plays, which are A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Winter's Tale. His play The Merchant of Venice features the lines "The quality of mercy is not strain'd, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven. It is twice blest; it blesseth him that gives, and him that takes."

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