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“Mend your speech a little, Lest it may mar your fortunes.”
Provenance
- Source:
- King Lear. Act i. Sc. 1.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7f3f628e08f4843fdbe1adaf707f424235c2cc0055f2a9b704734203e6daea6b
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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