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“For drames always go by conthraries, my dear.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Rory O'More.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 923ccc1409ce55af7b7d4d304e3f40ce3eb3996c195c8e6527c26d16521ccbf8
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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