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“Curse away! And let me tell thee, Beausant, a wise proverb The Arabs have,--"Curses are like young chickens, And still come home to roost."”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Lady of Lyons. Act v. Sc. 2.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 09752d80f8287225fd260d935b595fe93888aaa173b681c48a8439c52e03d214
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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