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“From thousands of our undone widows One may derive some wit.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 4ffe5784b2d64d96494826183bebf2162800e032c1c265507b0525c9a1b72ebd
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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