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The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give,
For we that live to please, must please to live.

Source: Prologue at the Opening of the Theatre in Drury Lane.
-- Samuel Johnson, (Sep 18 1709-1784), English lexicographer, critic; He was remembered for writing the first critique of Shakespeare, 1765 and Dictionary of the English Language, 1755.

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