An open blue door reveals warm light, with slippers on its threshold and a loose dark ribbon nearby.

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Troilus and Cressida

William Shakespeare

Welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

A greeting arrives with smiles, while leaving comes with sighs. The lines contrast the ease of gladness at someone's coming with the heaviness of parting, suggesting that hospitality is bright at the door and reluctant at the exit.

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