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careful to behave ethically and/or diligently (with great care and attention to detail)
- Our Italy Shines o'er with civil swords: Sextus Pompeius Makes his approaches to the port of Rome; Equality of two domestic powers Breed scrupulous faction: the hated, grown to strength, Are newly grown to love: the condemn'd Pompey, Rich in his father's honour, creeps apace Into the hearts of such as have not thriv'd Upon the present state, whose numbers threaten; And quietness, grown sick of rest, would purge By any desperate change.1.3 — Act 1 Scene 3 — Alexandria. A Room in CLEOPATRA'S palace (49% in)
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