EDGAR: O gods, who is ‘t can say “I am at the worst”?
I am worse than e’er I was. […]
And worse I may be yet: the worst is not,
So long as we can say, “This is the worst.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English dramatist and poet

King Lear, Act 4, sc. 1, l. 27ff (4.1.27-31) (1606)
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