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“Possession is eleven points in the law.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Woman's Wit. Act i.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ca02f2aa3fe0bb1a5936a87258843bb1f3c9a545dd65a477108bfc3a2f2a5e5b
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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