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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit.

      — The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 6

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Troilus and Cressida
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Pandarus

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Is a' not? it does a man's heart good. Look you
what hacks are on his helmet! look you yonder, do
you see? look you there: there's no jesting;
there's laying on, take't off who will, as they say:
there be hacks!

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