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“Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b4a5de632c777d8262f1bdfedb359f79b71ab05e0dda3b5c2464c2358bcd8e4e
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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