“Still it cried ‘Sleep no more!’ to all the house: ‘Glamis hath murder’d sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more,—Macbeth shall sleep no more!”

—  William Shakespeare , Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

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English playwright and poet 1564–1616

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