Quotation by Shakespeare

It is a wise father that knows his own child.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Launcelot, in The Merchant of Venice, act 2, sc. 2, l. 72-3 (1600).

Launcelot repeats a proverbial saying as he attempts to make himself known to his blind father Gobbo.
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