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“Is base in kind, and born to be a slave.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Table Talk. Line 28.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 988e818a78bb16ac159afdfd44b7176485986dbdc3dd30118a2710e68d26fad9
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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