This the curse of service: Preferment goes by letter and affection, and not by old gradation, where each second stood heir to the first.

This the curse of service: Preferment goes by letter and affection, and not by old gradation, where each second stood heir to the first.
William Shakespeare

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Hamlet I v 106
- William Shakespeare

This the curse of service: Preferment goes by letter and affection, and not by old gradation, where each second stood heir to the first. William Shakespeare

This the curse of service: Preferment goes by letter and affection, and not by old gradation, where each second stood heir to the first.
William Shakespeare