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“He kept him as the apple of his eye.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 796ab86d0ba9e63b718efd19409a592f9672f12494abe1e1dedcaa9b921701ff
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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