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“Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?”
— Unattributed
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- a9137e60aeb95cd2a15a2675110f85e1e90193961ba388d33d0965648f88db7f
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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