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To: Plutarch

OK, that sounds very clever, but I can’t find the original it’s based upon.


76 posted on 11/10/2007 8:40:03 PM PST by Kevmo (We should withdraw from Iraq — via Tehran. And Duncan Hunter is just the man to get that job done.)
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To: Kevmo
OK, that sounds very clever, but I can’t find the original it’s based upon.

Measure for Measure Act 2, Scene 2

ISABELLA

Could great men thunder
As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet,
For every pelting, petty officer
Would use his heaven for thunder;
Nothing but thunder! Merciful Heaven,
Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt
Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak
Than the soft myrtle: but man, proud man,
Drest in a little brief authority,
Most ignorant of what he's most assured,
His glassy essence, like an angry ape,
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
As make the angels weep; who, with our spleens,
Would all themselves laugh mortal.

84 posted on 11/10/2007 9:28:49 PM PST by Plutarch
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