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“He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked.”
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- bbd56b451c7318cea6883b13958e57c3fdaf9e29c4470a808d6c0e3423305d59
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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