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“Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- dfd378656dda7656ed920830428f0ce5a7f7b7afe9cbe7685761ff2458e7793d
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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