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What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.
Juliet, Romeo and Juliet · William Shakespeare
In plain English

Names don't matter — a rose would smell just as sweet under any other name.

What it means

Juliet argues that Romeo's identity — the thing she loves — has nothing to do with the family name that makes him her enemy. It is the play's tragic wish: that love could exist outside the labels and feuds the world insists on.

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