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“A little fire is quickly trodden out; Which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d079a1871b88ccd91ffa29e7c136844e51f4ceef32e6f0144042f8ab23490b9d
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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