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“Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Discourses. Chap. xvi.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6f107382c67208295e3a24169cadb3db830a6a04d09f26a8da8889bc7c9a2eda
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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