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“A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yond simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?”
Provenance
- Source:
- King Lear. Act iv. Sc. 6.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ed057e42236e7c9dd4fbcaf00b9e7c09fa7fabb740747bf021a1c590b44e3c54
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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