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“Fortune, the great commandress of the world, Hath divers ways to advance her followers: To some she gives honour without deserving, To other some, deserving without honour.”
Provenance
- Source:
- All Fools. Act v. Sc. 1.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 511b0f5151816ef2c761f217a0b6168b25cc966cb9daa623d2d47698258440c0
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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