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“But as when an authentic watch is shown, Each man winds up and rectifies his own, So in our very judgments.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Aglaura. Epilogue.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 70282474f0a3e8879cb7ddcc7d39fcba7f857947e8cdcd6f719497ee6aa341d8
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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