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“The tongues of dying men Enforce attention like deep harmony.”
Provenance
- Source:
- King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 1.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7cdbcebcc5923ca3437ac7d60e209bb9a1a9c16a25abe49ae87b7491a5d4e2b8
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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