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“For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f9bc587e296aaa9c34149ac69366403a29a979cab94c1a15ede693777aa140c2
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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