"Love is not loveWhich alters when it..." - Quote by William Shakespeare
Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove.O, no! It is an ever-fixed mark,That looks on tempests and is never shaken.It is the star to every wandering bark,Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
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