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“Every why hath a wherefore.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 9d999d96a627e31e3974491c0edbbeb8d6101f1c62b0a1e7ac9e2737186d1296
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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