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“O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain! My tables,--meet it is I set it down, That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain: At least I 'm sure it may be so in Denmark.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 5.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f0e0d08146532fe146035c6f02fc8d37052df49c36a05a942239b39128a76264
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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