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On Republican Politics

. . . [This] will knit and break religions, bless th’ accursed,

Make the hoar leprosy adored, place thieves

And give them title, knee, and approbation

With senators on the bench. This is it

That makes the wappened widow wed again;

She whom the spital house and ulcerous sores

Would cast the gorge at, this embalms and spices

To th’ April day again.


—Shakespeare, Timon of Athens 3.4

 
 
 

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