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Primrose path : ウィキペディア英語版 | Primrose path
The primrose path refers to a life of ease and pleasure, or to a course of action that seems easy and appropriate but can actually end in calamity.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 primrose path - definition by the Free Online Dictionary )〕 ==In popular culture== An early appearance of the phrase in print occurs in Shakespeare's 1602 play ''Hamlet'' (Act I, Scene III), where Ophelia, rebuffing her brother Laertes' insistence that she resist Hamlet's advances, warns Laertes against hypocrisy:〔
Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads And recks not his own rede.
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