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“A thing of custom,--'t is no other; Only it spoils the pleasure of the time.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 4.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 207066ea887882022da4da89f184b5c473c334561abf86690d75e6d021e357d2
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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