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“Brevity is the soul of wit.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Hamlet
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-05-01
- Hash:
- bf26e86f87e62536ff6358090bea2a8da1559714f49cda9596f588b81e2597bf
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