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“Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up Thine own life's means!”
Provenance
- Source:
- Macbeth. Act ii. Sc. 4.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b159a94848f339b3897bdc43223d46c3c4058a548d50999cd1ddd6f92d87bd24
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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