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“Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour 's at the stake.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 4.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 5fea0af9a84821a3035b3eb4a5c2bcec7f1f3da5d09cf7f5b88d04a65142b37b
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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