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“And finds, with keen, discriminating sight, Black 's not so black,--nor white so very white.”
Provenance
- Source:
- New Morality.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ee53dc7797f679f92c9707966b846aa7aaa98c69590871b0291189bd7e05a730
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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