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“Steal! to be sure they may; and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,--disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Critic. Act i. Sc. 1.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f35ea4057ba29feb58d24002d61efb9e0970deef47e200c822c3c0c3373ff453
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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