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“Striving to better, oft we mar what 's well.”
Provenance
- Source:
- King Lear. Act i. Sc. 4.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b320fec2f05a9a50a857ed5df414ffa326b8cc5191481bd12cf280f8c9f6ac77
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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