"O, but they say, the tongues of dying……" — William Shakespeare

O, but they say, the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like… - William Shakespeare

"O, but they say, the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain: for they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain. he, that no more must say, is listened more than they whom youth and ease have taught to gloze; more are men's ends marked, than their lives before: the setting sun, and music at the close, as the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last; writ in rememberance more than things long past"

— William Shakespeare

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