“When I am forgotten, as I shall be, and sleep in dull cold marble, say, I taught thee.”

— William Shakespeare, Henry VIII, Act 3, Scene 2

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1564 – 1616

English playwright and poet, author of 'Hamlet', 'Macbeth' and 'Romeo and Juliet'.

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