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“A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 78fdf0c6a51f64258e13e7d5768be58cd716c50ed13e1a2708f234862a124fe9
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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