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“Give you a reason on compulsion! If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I.”
Provenance
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f73b56ba9ee88e50622f728fe20d22b18b43146f8b6b83c4f3d587d72abaec57
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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