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“The world 's a stage on which all parts are played.”
Provenance
- Source:
- A Game at Chess. Act v. Sc. 1.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a193aa9c359668e5317b3b15d5134a28704b438f8b792870f0bff54157acccbd
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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