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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child!

      — King Lear, Act I Scene 4

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KEYWORD: owed

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Richard III
[IV, 4]

Queen Elizabeth

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Hidest thou that forehead with a golden crown,
Where should be graven, if that right were right,
The slaughter of the prince that owed that crown,
And the dire death of my two sons and brothers?
Tell me, thou villain slave, where are my children?

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