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“Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools.”
Provenance
- Source:
- As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 4.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f66a9592a9f3f266e6a9b7eeb9c8ce99e6d0b55bc8db5d4de2dc4f1f0f9a2ac1
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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