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“As if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion.”
Provenance
- Source:
- King Lear. Act i. Sc. 2.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3d2dabc7768773c5c437b07d377a98a074a49ee641f6e36ac35135fc131a6415
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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