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“Death is a shadow that always follows the body.”
—14th-century English proverb.

“But it was alway yet the trick of our English nation, if they
have a good thing, to make it too common.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“The difference is wide that the sheets will not decide.”
—English proverb, collected in John Ray, English Proverbs (1670)