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“Good to the heels the well-worn slipper feels When the tired player shuffles off the buskin; A page of Hood may do a fellow good After a scolding from Carlyle or Ruskin.”
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- Source:
- How not to settle it.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b642562b0b88b773f72e41f7d2142c02a0cf49c9ea39fe9549472d30a1c48213
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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