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“Too civil by half.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Rivals. Act iii. Sc. 4.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 4e72d3156d0f74e857eb843ebcfa72c89c6e895931adccdda07aea172ae5aea2
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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