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“A few strong instincts, and a few plain rules.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 8c36ae569a31d602690ecb661605baa3153a7b887446bd2de74ce958bddb4979
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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