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There's a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads onto fortune, omitted, all their voyages end in shallows and miseries. Upon such tide are we now...
There's a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads onto fortune, omitted, all their voyages end in shallows and miseries. Upon such tide are we now...
Approximate author period: c. 1590 AD · renaissance
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- William Shakespeare
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- Approximate author period: c. 1590 AD · renaissance
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