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“When Fortune means to men most good, She looks upon them with a threatening eye.”
Provenance
- Source:
- King John. Act iii. Sc. 4.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 984deb1d106639ea6c1cca35483f660ef39c32c7456345db5e198407b298ef2e
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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