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“Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?”
Provenance
- Source:
- Polite Conversation. Dialogue i.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c5068f1cae411a917ae923883b6a5b01a8ec8b86e87f52040c2ca796b933d13a
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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