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“All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 889de9ab01cb722d21c529c7f758c0175c655675e86c8c825847b6c582a9d212
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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