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“Ay, do despise me! I 'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Hypocrite. Act v. Sc. 1.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 35181cdfd6b1d00542b4a0adc8493fa9cc58288ace6a58c422d8bef22bb83e7a
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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