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“I 'll example you with thievery: The sun 's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea; the moon 's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun; The sea 's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears; the earth 's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen From general excrement: each thing 's a thief.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Timon of Athens. Act iv. Sc. 3.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 715f4ce13bd7864725bd30491ace9f2e825f45de043ba78935e9f9908c219347
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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