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“Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew and dog will have his day.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 1.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 9201e8599731972b68f0b83ee9c275f927aae28a34dc026f4a07bc1b2e07aaaf
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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