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“No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3e1195277702cc0b586728b6fd7536af412cdde2f104ba71581a4f3389c8053a
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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