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Quotation from The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
“Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean. So, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes”
The Winter's Tale, Act 4, Scene 4 (Project Gutenberg #1539 (modernised spelling))
Polixenes defends grafting against Perdita's distrust of hybrid flowers, an argument that his own opposition to his son's marriage will contradict.
Citation: "Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean. So, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes" — William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, Act 4, Scene 4 (Project Gutenberg #1539 (modernised spelling)). (id the-winters-tale-q10)
