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Quotation from A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

“The course of true love never did run smooth”

William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 1, Scene 1

Portrait of William Shakespeare

Lysander compresses the comedy's disorderly erotic logic into a proverb.

Citation: "The course of true love never did run smooth" — William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 1, Scene 1. (id a-midsummer-nights-dream-q1)

Portrait: Midsommer nights dreame 1600 Quarto title page, William Shakespeare, Public domain.

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