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“'T is just like a summer bird-cage in a garden,--the birds that are without despair to get in, and the birds that are within despair and are in a consumption for fear they shall never get out.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The White Devil. Act i. Sc. 2.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- bbf5698fea83185d5ba3fe078abb932e1c629325f22981be8bed53260837c86f
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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