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“Triumphs for nothing and lamenting toys Is jollity for apes and grief for boys.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Cymbeline. Act iv. Sc. 2.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- eb9188849ca95bcc2658c54e52d916bbb3897d90463707d5e589781de7a7e97c
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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