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“I am not merry; but I do beguile The thing I am, by seeming otherwise.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Othello. Act ii. Sc. 1.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 716471b722dc45a75d69b548ae9018539bc98d1e5f3221abc9cb445d959efc8d
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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