For It So Falls Out That What We Have We Prize Not To The Worth Whiles We Enjoy It, But Being Lack'd And Lost, Why, Then We Rack The Value

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For it so falls out
That what we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost,
Why, then we rack the value; then we find
The virtue that possession would not show us
Whiles it was ours.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Much Ado about Nothing
-- Act iv, Sc. 1

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