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“Good orators, when they are out, they will spit.”
Provenance
- Source:
- As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 144fb894cdb89abf392409e33701766c2706e2627402cf175b2084f99d17dc30
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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