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“More is thy due than more than all can pay.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 4.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c121a4c271efeca5c3301dbe44a7d1f82614f583028257ef8b83898c9c80f4c8
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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