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“Every white will have its blacke, And every sweet its soure.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 104d338580b23d1394e1384dc9e33ce2ce10211dd60345dba70eeb4ea5ac1bf3
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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