Sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of…

William Shakespeare
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Sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency. ✨ William Shakespeare (1867). Works. The Text Carefully Restored According to the First Editions: With Introductions, Notes Original and Selected, and a Life of the Poet, p.472
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Sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency. ✨ William Shakespeare (1867). Works. The Text Carefully Restored According to the First Editions: With Introductions, Notes Original and Selected, and a Life of the Poet, p.472

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