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“He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Captain Starkey.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 96c03c242d6d12f6229da20c32a85cf0c664c102a3dbfd33a98b387cba153ebd
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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