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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 46578e0586c479dd395d1702a5a576dda75eab5ba636436685918e358fa007f0
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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