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Quotation from Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare

“If this be error and upon me prov’d, I never writ, nor no man ever lov’d.”

William Shakespeare

Sonnet 116, Lines 13-14 (Project Gutenberg #1041, modern spelling)

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The couplet's wager: the speaker stakes his writing and all human love on the truth of his definition.

Citation: "If this be error and upon me prov’d, I never writ, nor no man ever lov’d." — William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116, Lines 13-14 (Project Gutenberg #1041, modern spelling). (id sonnet-116-q7)

Portrait: Sonnet 116 1609, William Shakespeare, Public domain.

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