"Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit and lost without deserving."

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Poets from EnglandPlaywrights from EnglandActors from EnglandPoets from the United KingdomShakespeare
Original Language: English

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Iago, Act II, scene iii.

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Iago, Act II, scene iii.