Whatever is, is in its causes just. ✨ 'Oedipus' (written jointly with …

John Dryden
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Whatever is, is in its causes just. ✨ 'Oedipus' (written jointly with Nathaniel Lee, q.v., 1679) act 3, sc. 1
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Men met each other with erected look, The steps were higher that they took; Friends to congratulate their friends made haste, And long inveterate foes saluted as they pass'd. ✨ John Dryden (1855). Th … ▶
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