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“Do not drop in for an after-loss. Ah, do not, when my heart hath 'scap'd this sorrow, Come in the rearward of a conquer'd woe; Give not a windy night a rainy morrow, To linger out a purpos'd overthrow.”
— William Shakespeare
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Source:
Sonnet xc.
Type:
Book
Confidence:
0.85
Indexed:
2026-07-04
Hash:
21b2051a4efb2f77d27744fcd729da8e767cd8384a94d70436903035342cff2f
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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