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“Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.”
Provenance
- Source:
- King John. Act iii. Sc. 4.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 013acc2cf899f90b2181450cd36b75985223185a29521a27049cf95989f18f96
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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