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“To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till we find it stopping a bung-hole?”
Provenance
- Source:
- Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 1.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 83f8dd276ee7c0439126033c12e7ac5e3f3d0f605dc9ef443a2b5f8ef108627d
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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