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William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes: If you had told Sycorax that her son Caliban was as handsome as Apollo, she would have been pleased, witch as she was.
         

If you had told Sycorax that her son Caliban was as handsome as Apollo, she would have been pleased, witch as she was.


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