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“Here we may reign secure; and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 261.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 836bb9087a184de23bd5611d7c37a00ff4054dc2ea9ff2dd432439de006ca927
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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