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O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?

William Shakespeare

I shall despair. There is no creature loves me; And if I die no soul will pity me: And wherefore should they, since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself?

William Shakespeare

There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things.

William Shakespeare

ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested. Wherefore the lexicographer adviseth a striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself. Whoso attaineth thereto shall have peace, the prospect of death and the hope of Hell.

Ambrose Bierce

Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.

Bible

The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.

W. Somerset Maugham

Wherefore when a man giveth out his money upon condition that be may not demand it back until a certain time to come, he certainly may take a compensation for this inconvenience which he admits against himself.

William Petty

O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall.

Dante Alighieri

Wherefore to-night so full of care, / My soul, revolving hopeless strife?

Robert Bridges