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“The ripest fruit first falls.”
Provenance
- Source:
- King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 1.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f1e77d9b0e474a6957dc3e2be6f0d3c10850504b74a0f43f14068de9f934b4f8
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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