"For it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack’d and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours."
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Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy by William Shakespeare thought to have been written between 1598 and 1599. The play was included in the First Folio, published in 1623.
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