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“Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furr'd gowns hide all.”
Provenance
- Source:
- King Lear. Act iv. Sc. 6.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 77109597fe6b63dc571dcdbd16f676507f70601ca5f7e9c1a5ed6c247539ed49
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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