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“The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage Which God and Nature do with actors fill.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Apology for Actors (1612).
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d8244263ca23c4f3a7eb81bb6dcf6fb7eb1d0f55155859bd10292c12d3757ca9
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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