Quotation by Shakespeare

Our kindred, though they be long ere they be wooed, they are constant being won; they are burrs, I can tell you, they'll stick where they are thrown.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Pandarus, in Troilus and Cressida, act 3, sc. 2, l. 109-12.

Praising his niece, Cressida.
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