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“I take the world to be but as a stage, Where net-maskt men do play their personage.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 90f1c8b2281b108284cd158fb321dde98763bf5f6c0e2cc478faf8691867e30e
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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