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“If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Rivals. Act iii. Sc. 3.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a2dc5d8a560375bb0a741cfb9da269c388279efe1f389c42eb889b1e636b01bc
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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