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“That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct, As water is in water.”
Provenance
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3943abfd60c3a54465016aadada78588142563705265a1a0a70f919301b9f461
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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