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“You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come; Knock as you please, there 's nobody at home.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Epigram.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6e936e1c61e90bc966fd76b6ee2dfd28ce7272e744acdbdf61613b958d50af45
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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