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“Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet To think how monie counsels sweet, How monie lengthened sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Tam o' Shanter.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e0bdab86ef81606d7d54ed2c0f682eaab86c5ceae93c7e8d2c7e1e18a5f988bd
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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