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“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 5.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3b6ebe1deee6f20b2c2fb836e44bfafc7bbfb3864ce9d2d4f7ffd9047b2727ba
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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