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“Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; that is, more knave than fool.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Jew of Malta. Act ii.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ddfa0eb284acab5abbaa75c4b1fe9e812d3bf19338619c3923c047483ae60ab4
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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