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The Retort Courteous; . . . the Quip Modest; . . . the Reply Churlish; . . . the Reproof Valiant; . . . the Countercheck Quarrelsome; . . . the Lie with Circumstance; . . . the Lie Direct.
Provenance
Type:
play
Confidence:
0.85
Indexed:
2026-07-04
Hash:
6097926a49624cbc8a6924d7bb10e32bb3f1a2543d90777a4da657c89385acdf
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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