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“Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 1.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e00ba6994cecc34133115988514d86f884ba51e3755d13cee778d40ea4c93ec5
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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