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“It would be argument for a week, laughter for a month, and a good jest for ever.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f25ff2389b09e2caf052b11797f752044bc754a13c38597fc4ac8811f7664cac
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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