“If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?”
William Shakespeare
Spoken by the character Shylock in the play The Merchant of Venice
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Oldest Pubs of Britain
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