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“Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 58febdd0ff6f19a4cc12cc0d91379df00bf0abda92f80682c006dc465dd19e26
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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