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“Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 84ddb2cea6b153f612c4bdbc191d00e634c030ffdd90a85798d537582ccb9d82
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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“Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue.”
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Eating the bitter bread of banishment.”
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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