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“A good old man, sir; he will be talking: as they say, When the age is in the wit is out.”
Provenance
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 44259755a1bd9a38da5bcb0f5df6f5fd075775c3b5f19a341a32b393f5149709
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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