"We are ne’er like angels till our passion dies."
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The Honest Whore (1604), Part ii, Act i. Sc. 2.
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Thomas Dekker (writer)
Thomas Dekker (c. 1572 – August 25 1632) was an Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer, a versatile and prolific writer whose career spanned several decades and brought him into contact with many of the period's most famous dramatists.
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