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“A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Rivals. Act iii. Sc. 1.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 1577acff705b1ed3f58639b5367c3c08ebdc9923c8b26f57eeda7b1921b870c3
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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