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“A knock-down argument: 't is but a word and a blow.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Amphitryon. Act i. Sc. 1.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 67d8a30c4791d64bbeb698c5ba43c90151f522b984fe127a3f5e89a974b7288c
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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