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Why Juliet said “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell just as sweet.”

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A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" is a popular reference to William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, in which Juliet seems to argue that it does not matter that Romeo is from her family's rival house of Montague, that is, that he is named "Montague".

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