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“As a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 0bbd0cd5b737dcad3a9e6565d1bd83e6e8308a456b88a541db2e8865ecf3fb16
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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