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“An ill weed grows apace.”
Provenance
- Source:
- An Humorous Day's Mirth.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 4b40d4029256beb621f4ca4bf8d9833969f4e677cf97f0b3043892acb18731e1
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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