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Thus sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud, And after summer evermore succeeds Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold; So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.

William Shakespeare
Henry VI, Part 2 · 1594
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Yin and yang
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1594The Renaissance
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William Shakespeare
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Shakespeare, William. "The Second Part of Henry the Sixth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 4.
Original citation
Shakespeare, William. Henry VI, Part 2. London: Thomas Millington, 1594, act 2, sc. 4.

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