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“He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink.”
Provenance
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b7f4367461cdf6beb798d6578fbe206e7bf5d14879852be6563674a0cbcce203
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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