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“It was alway yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing to make it too common.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 832721aff9869d5b57248cdaafcd41429e16e72bc9120bd71b2cdd95c869d8eb
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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