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What is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? And live we how we can, yet die we must. — William Shakespeare

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What is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? And live we how we can, yet die we must.

William Shakespeare
Henry VI, Part 3 · 1595
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1595The Renaissance
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William Shakespeare
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Shakespeare, William. "The Third Part of Henry the Sixth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 5, sc. 2.
Original citation
Shakespeare, William. Henry the Sixth, Part 3. London: Thomas Millington, 1595, act 5, sc. 2.

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