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NUMBER:21774
QUOTATION:Better a serpent than a stepmother!
ATTRIBUTION:Euripides (480–406 B.C.), Greek dramatist. Alcestis, in Alcestis, l. 310, Collected Plays of Euripides, ed. and trans. by Gilbert Murray (1954).
 
 
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