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“The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.”
Provenance
- Source:
- King Lear. Act v. Sc. 3.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 26c87e7da25515bfd5d45ca1e646667ecec412da3c1dfd15b183a2cf76d22d94
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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