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“The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, Unless the deed go with it.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Macbeth. Act iv. Sc. 1.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b4f091e37dc675b14adac2d271f74bda63f407018fac7cf6c81cdc8e34fd0157
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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