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“He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way, Tormenting himself with his prickles.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Her Dream.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6649e4ee148ec841f97f93a30814c467370137c7e44e3c42cb035c7e0011bed3
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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