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“Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Shakespeare.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 272632fab0c9ef28a77a141b3f71cb6df9b3da69d8c5ac64de09e358b49e440e
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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