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“Beside, 't is known he could speak Greek As naturally as pigs squeak; That Latin was no more difficile Than to a blackbird 't is to whistle.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 4fbc892617720d6f4eeaabc22837eb9c78b01687ff2d6709b5bbb1f001da5f80
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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