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- Source:
- Iconoclastes. xxiii.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 5e89f8ab20b2b47d3929393ed453997872511935b8d963a667b00a32b136b709
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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