The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.William Shakespeare · Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.
Read the saying and check its sourcesThe weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
William Shakespeare · Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.
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- John Bartlett · Familiar Quotations (9ª edizione, 1905) · William Shakespeare · Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.
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