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“The most peaceable way for you if you do take a thief, is to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c29becc7ab619cbf5100d255b7dbc2e89eec71ff9edf8cae20bb54f5ddc5ddbf
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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