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“He passed a cottage with a double coach-house,-- A cottage of gentility; And he owned with a grin, That his favourite sin Is pride that apes humility.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Devil's Walk. Stanza 8.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d0a85819f70432ec86e56bc357ec5c021e36316306904f64db5c137b318b3a2d
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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