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“Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Macbeth. Act iv. Sc. 3.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 85b3ea17c626aa3f3124853fa9ab0c161e711a5cbe0124d0ec36723268d878d8
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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