“What strange arts necessity finds out.”
Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) English dramatist, poet and translator
Venus, Act I, scene i, line 169
Dido (c. 1586)
“The art of our necessities is strange
That can make vile things precious.”
Source: King Lear
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