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“Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.”
Provenance
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 0a5c68b4a678f63baf4e782da09fdff3ef19ea2047692a15907fc7a8cf4c5ffe
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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“And reads, though running, all these needful motions.”
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John Lyly
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