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“Must I hold a candle to my shames?”
Provenance
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 40b1de69652d29d18c41cbf7d7624ec5eadf16eb7eebc1a2567ec99f3962da3e
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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