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“As the old hermit of Prague, that never saw pen and ink, very wittily said to a niece of King Gorboduc, That that is, is.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Twelfth Night. Act iv. Sc. 2.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 1123167e994a604824fcb49422284b1fdee6bddc0d3cccd53f71b43b2ab614ff
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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