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“A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- bbaea60cfd592c84f054bc483a5c87bdeca027b688021ad1bc43b1e080257f0b
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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