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“To hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 518dd805a31299a55f95deeee07fa3ee9b3ac196470146cfb67ca7916c9ceb5b
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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