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“It shew'd discretion, the best part of valour.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 95abf86bd040a0c5aa1e81a376630cdc5456be2e93fb99193cf6a6c7700764b8
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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