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“Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be Ere one can say, "It lightens."”
Provenance
- Source:
- Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 2.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 54970ecd636db1c6efeeb8fa7c6015223b24a4234b209ed6e251faa28fd7a7d6
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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