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“Gave it an understanding, but no tongue.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 27f7e37531de3347f521610fae62344669ed8de6fd1efc4f2b0fd64061a02a19
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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