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“So our lives In acts exemplary, not only win Ourselves good names, but doth to others give Matter for virtuous deeds, by which we live.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Bussy D'Ambois. Act i. Sc. 1.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e90272fbb0b837f8588831c7811687c3bf1e18981d78b7f8ce6e5daec787cbd6
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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