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“Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in every thing.”
Provenance
- Source:
- As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 1.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- bbc8ff11de60925e54531f1a266bcec625ccd68047b8b290164cd5404d263594
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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