William Shakespeare:

Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

— William Shakespeare Early Modern

Greatest playwright in English

As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 1

c. 1599-1600

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