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“And I oft have heard defended,-- Little said is soonest mended.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Shepherd's Hunting.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6519ed73e45be5a52deb8f1fe86ee92d02ff78143fb8aa5ccb486a8c32b5775a
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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