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“No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en; In brief, sir, study what you most affect.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3dfd8e0d8bade5ef4926e2b6656a36882d10aacb9a4d26ed49569095ef71b455
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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