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“And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray 's In deepest consequence.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 3.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 494835f88d92ed665cd745d872b7bb220b7514f8274059dc8f77117925235e9e
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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