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“The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.”
Provenance
- Source:
- King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 3.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 749f8c3232f14a125bbe06335d78a76fd13c5c7b2196df7f6bee1a0bb103b446
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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