Quote#Books & Reading
Shake was a dramatist of note
Quote byHenry Cuyler Bunner · 1855–1896
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "Shake, Mulleary and Go-ethe" (i.e. Shakespeare, Molière and Goethe), line 9; by V. Hugo Dusenbury (pseudonym of Henry Cuyler Brunner), in Puck, Vol. 6, No. 151 (January 28, 1880), p. 762..
English (original)
Shake was a dramatist of note; He lived by writing things to quote.
— Henry Cuyler Bunner
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