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Then let my love be younger than thyself, or thy affection cannot hold the bent.
The duke's rose speech · Twelfth Night (2012)
Then let my love be younger than thyself, or thy affection cannot hold the bent.
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For women are as roses whose fair flower being once displayed, doth fall that very hour.
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Why it's worth practising
His advice about age dissolves into the rose image, tender and fatal at once.
Phrases in this speech
Make shadowing a habit
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