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“They are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time: after your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c36f811c1bceb04e5effb6e6785106a610881c4091c5bbaedc053324c5424da5
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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