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“There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.”
Provenance
- Source:
- King Lear. Act iii. Sc. 2.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b3e69e56649c105857349438cae47f3c75bf8390f82ca094e28df663b4fcc757
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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