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“Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 1.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 1ec60e75e60aac6fca34f0f168137f7b30f5508bb24531280ad14c3223803d4c
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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