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Is she worth keeping? Why, she is a pearl
Whose price hath launched above a thousand ships.
- William Shakespeare
Attribution: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Troilus, in Troilus and Cressida, act 2, sc. 2, l. 81-2. Referring to Helen, whose rape by Paris caused the Trojan war, and echoing a famous passage in Christopher Marlowe’s play, Doctor Faustus.

Categories: Beauty, Dramatist, Values

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