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“The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Othello. Act i. Sc. 3.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 577747ad4fab772d1be7694f17e26016570e829fee0061b8fbca6e93410fb8e5
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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