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“And men sit down to that nourishment which is called supper.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b1d6edb3d6c23a013962f01731fa34bc99958128eb18ea407ec8ff8d47e349b2
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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