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“Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 1.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- dc1172a789e61ad27dcc03b62e8149619fe03bce2a0e59b9c53af8fec7db9c15
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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