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“On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting; 'T was only that when he was off he was acting.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Retaliation. Line 101.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- eeba1eee0d505c99d9fa0f56e53a8f6ec31a9f3ca429ec2ff6e9d9b92c583e31
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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