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“A plague of sighing and grief! It blows a man up like a bladder.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b0766716654e1e90fb46a113e35dbe013c1845a16f084e61cd8d3bd14cdefda0
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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