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“He 's tough, ma'am,--tough is J. B.; tough and devilish sly.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Dombey and Son. Chap. vii.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- de96136119b138a1fbbd962ad7f62e90740bd23918d7597f4ee80e7e23d98838
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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