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“Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them,--but not for love.”
Provenance
- Source:
- As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 73a16fe93f35c77a92f2dc0004e81816c6d1d4f8e33810bf7b5eed3cfd9c5212
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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