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“The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate; Death lays his icy hands on kings.”
Provenance
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 96a0cec13e54eeb331785bfd303ea1ed03978f7abfa666eaf7fd5819b9f457c4
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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