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“Let down the curtain: the farce is done.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Motteux's Life.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3ac7c99e2d74202adc3b2ec6c940ca5c799b19dcbc4c29a33df83867b1fc1f65
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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