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“For a good poet 's made as well as born.”
Provenance
- Source:
- To the Memory of Shakespeare.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3ed255c3ab105cc6cd996938d7248d96f1f1dc82c11f3b2fa78d6a2eb51119ae
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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