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“An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Of the Training of Children.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 9ddc5e3fbbd3a6655b396ea4313e8b7ba48b43ad2c2164180c048ef4c4527232
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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