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“Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat i' the adage.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 7.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b971a4fa2f49ea4d07bb00cb94c08669797147318892c9446a01e559a9959242
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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