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“My way of life Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf; And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have; but in their stead Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Macbeth. Act v. Sc. 3.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 1d128a35c544af0c011b810f4d913a336ccd988c1756ebfd77ec5aa23bfa75ca
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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