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“The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a1ff7106eee1a21c4ea35c387cd8c2635f57a08dad59c69abd00568d9a448f64
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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