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“Lo where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Curiosity.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 14bcfb9ad13a798f42abd77a495208cc7973ffa1e5acd8039efd8be8242d17d9
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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