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“How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!”
Provenance
- Source:
- King Lear. Act i. Sc. 4.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c2a73bb6925c7010021236b0cc1637c0034e47f9ba4ebb495452f23c5e1b86fa
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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