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“The attempt and not the deed Confounds us.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Macbeth. Act ii. Sc. 2.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 40abd1766edab2e8c06ad1ee43d6336e1692a323861478624fc2f8c63d7c0565
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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