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“I must be cruel, only to be kind: Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 4024d6f2543ecdec9f7a3c7b40bce6adb425e84f0701713359000d92959191e7
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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