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“Necessity's sharp pinch!”
Provenance
- Source:
- King Lear. Act ii. Sc. 4.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 20e1979a0471a6ed73677fbf6187d7a91eb5a4fcfc6af8868742cb944b4e3e7d
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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