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“How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 1.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e540c1e6301a00c22fe6992c19504d961b9ae9a5dc4f62538def04274ffbf254
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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