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“Take note, take note, O world, To be direct and honest is not safe.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Othello. Act iii. Sc. 3.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 84dd77c2c03bdf60497339f5eed8ad5ed9c7abd7d4af313ba7351a3acf4e58aa
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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