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“Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, And recks not his own rede.”
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- Source:
- Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 5913955fc65e0d523e98cdaea321ab59ff3bbe68e2d9e20d0eebda80ae1ef8cc
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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