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“Books, the children of the brain.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Tale of a Tub. Sect. i.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 2121c025d6dd135e826999b27e712cc4122f7cce0fb42841f2d168a85078cfe1
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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