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“Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 9faf80bf2aa72710132fc762576ae95eb9f8aee4eef870803d9ed8606524ec47
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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