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“I had always been clever, I had always been outspoken. I had always been well read; I just had to be that. My plan was simple. My notion was that no man wanted a wife who was cleverer than him, and spoke boldly enough to show the world that was.”

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Beatrice and Benedick

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Marina Fiorato

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