What win I if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy? Who buys a minute’s mirth to wail a week Or sells eternity for a toy? For one sweet grape, who would the vine destroy? Of what found beggar but to touch the crown, Would with the scepter straight be stricken down?

Shakespeare

Shakespeare

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