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“Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b62b47be2f73e5c0d05fd5035e364a27597098b3cf621fd9698847b6a20c85af
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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