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“Fain would I, but I dare not; I dare, and yet I may not; I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not.”
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- Source:
- Fain Would I.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c83a503de1fca8faf2e3e59415f476ae2d515d604b7d64ae338139f665adebda
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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