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“O, what authority and show of truth Can cunning sin cover itself withal!”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- fd6f23ad09d9decef8acac92fde4cc76e8320a4a00d784d3482868894d12ebcc
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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