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“Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.”
Provenance
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- bef6a5ccfbd727df1c366f35a8245b54798065d02db86fb4118642f1c8ca9a07
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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