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“I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f3af70a883e7166ba365802eb8fcee863fd65abae592880b396767ee759f699b
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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