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“The lowest and most dejected thing of fortune.”
Provenance
- Source:
- King Lear. Act iv. Sc. 1.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- fcb8182f0bd716833af51893bfab7b22e901d942cc347ed094af3f35511c3a11
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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