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“I shall ne'er be ware of mine own wit till I break my shins against it.”
Provenance
- Source:
- As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 4.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 0b925007e20ba593c109f8e1f22182ef5ade4ac1facc5ff959c5762d3d9dabd0
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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