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“A man that 's fond precociously of stirring Must be a spoon.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Morning Meditations.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 012d9174eb24dffb1600cbe5c7b83614a7430403b4d53db214d4012089828756
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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