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“Thy modesty 's a candle to thy merit.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 5f2c1dae53dc38b7d1b345d2090063f992d794d0392f4541ef2a5eaa81923b18
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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