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“Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 896a4cbb5310fa92051ffd7d616c4cebb754a887612cd51a1ee6984618603ecf
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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