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“You lie--under a mistake, For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think.”
Provenance
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 89a8476f5040f3fd05f660f037d1b01154efd7fb00d58f35376cf6de5b9c6b93
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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