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“The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show.”
Provenance
- Source:
- As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7b2177bca3128d9ed874dd6cb8bdf3aa9ead0222d4433405c30c343903f75a59
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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