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Quotation from Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare

“To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be, it is impossible. Mirth cannot move a soul in agony”

William Shakespeare (spoken by Berowne)

Love's Labour's Lost, Act V, Scene 2 (Project Gutenberg #1510)

Berowne protests the penance Rosaline sets him: a year of jesting to the sick.

Citation: "To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be, it is impossible. Mirth cannot move a soul in agony" — William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, Act V, Scene 2 (Project Gutenberg #1510). (id loves-labours-lost-q13)

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