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“This principle is old, but true as fate,-- Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7edc8d467952e996b15b07e86c6d0d69264e777b7cad41f2af2766ed69664008
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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