"I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me."

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

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Charles Darwin, The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Vol. I (1860), as quoted in Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations (2005), p. 253.