“What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no.”

—  William Shakespeare

Source: King Henry IV, Part 1

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English playwright and poet 1564–1616

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