Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny wa…

William Shakespeare
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Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads And recks not his own read. ✨ 'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 47
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Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads And recks not his own read. ✨ 'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 47

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