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“Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 2.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 2674917a32f7c8e11d966641c7390837ba77332edb3b6d3d274db140c8519874
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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