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“Books which are no books.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Detached Thoughts on Books.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 0d3db5689ef1c4e3d17b218c47ce539d44c7a2298d0afdf11410c1bc3ff5e30f
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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