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“By robbing Peter he paid Paul, . . . and hoped to catch larks if ever the heavens should fall.”
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- Source:
- Works. Book i. Chap. xi.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 94ccb9b69812f2c92dedf0dfa2ac46201959a7157f24458526c82a8b21269b30
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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