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“I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 086ea12082b7a5cc11254d9cd4d21393f462bbafb1849b80ceb6f8f0417274ef
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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