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“On fortune's cap we are not the very button.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 91a17ee0dec8da571905f6b1db8985a6b3a0535fc7b1e07202df93e4396d8d46
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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