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“An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told.”
Provenance
- Source:
- King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 4.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3f2582faababbcee4603809b3ba51b61e3f87e07f208b96ef208cca5157b90f6
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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