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“And then he drew a dial from his poke, And looking on it with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, "It is ten o'clock: Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags."”
Provenance
- Source:
- As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c39896491619d6113ab81d67ddbcbb5e0efa6954d0e28d0384817568ee8e027d
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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