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“Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- da67500bf7501e7a47f58a24d61fc9464803ec5c9c91fe5f36048cef987b7b45
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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