I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to n…

William Shakespeare
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I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. ✨ 'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [247]
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I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. ✨ 'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [247]

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