Sunday, April 14, 2013

Shakespeare: A serpent's tooth

Today's Shakespearean proverb is from King Lear:

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.


For more proverbs from Shakespeare, see Shakespeare Proverbs by Mary Cowden Clarke (1848).

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