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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

635 William Shakespeare 1564-1616 John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:635
AUTHOR:William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
QUOTATION:If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. 1
ATTRIBUTION:The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.  [text]
WORKS:William Shakespeare Collection.
 
Note 1.
For the good that I would I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do.—Romans vii. 19. [back]