“I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.”
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Christopher Marlowe
2 quotes“But what are kings, when regiment is gone,But perfect shadows in a sunshine day?- Edward II, 5.1”