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“As a wit, if not first, in the very first line.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Retaliation. Line 96.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e39e3b444f4bce330b512d0d8e913495cd9c2e03d8fb1611c1b3d88cfe9e497f
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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