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“I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a76762bc26a694c93e52137799976aef33d8f7bbf557d0df9f52ce10dd86d514
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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