“ Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do: and the reason why they are not so punished and cured is, that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too. ”
William Shakespeare, As You Like It (1623). copy citation
Author | William Shakespeare |
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Source | As You Like It |
Topic | love madness insanity |
Date | 1623 |
Language | English |
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Note | Written between 1598 and 1599 |
Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1523/1523-h/1523-h.htm |