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“Silence gives consent.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Good-Natured Man. Act ii.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 82439762a4bb995982871c360e1358b7863bce26e4528472e3eaec463ed243e8
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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