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“I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad.”
Provenance
- Source:
- As You Like it. Act iv. Sc. 1.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7312733059b6b5ff017280ebfabc8be8e9361652542c9e044de10dfa2e202f83
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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