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| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 63456 |
| QUOTATION: | We are merely the stars’ tennis-balls, struck and bandied Which way please them. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | John Webster (1580–1625), British dramatist. repr. In The Complete Works of John Webster, ed. F.L. Lucas (1927). Bosola, in The Duchess of Malfi, act 5, sc. 4, l. 53-4 (1623). See Shakespeare’s comment on “life and death,” expressing a similar idea. |
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