PROSPERO: Though with their high wrongs I am struck to th’ quick,
Yet with my nobler reason ’gainst my fury
Do I take part. The rarer action is
In virtue than in vengeance.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet

Tempest, Act 5, sc. 1, l. 32ff (5.1.32-36) (1611)
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