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“Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour? No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c1ead9e9a5ffe9934f490572401eff4689cf8c455878d8e1d4e127ee4ccbb89c
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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