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“That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c62b210ddbecb07fc7d91b0c47e7a30ef1db2199bee9f5785f82ff48a63a9818
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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