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“A penny for your thoughts.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 4bb380f82afd2ffdc63b7e9a442b5684d132394fa11aff5c3b328ec4f158d70f
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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