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“The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 05610515a73568906af1755cf5397a5c3cf11c13066448075fb5e06531d148d1
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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