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“And since, I never dare to write As funny as I can.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Height of the Ridiculous.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3f3b4f01b29d73d585332e9b26bd4ef2d6e35d056ef4827a619714117a5ebdb0
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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