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“He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.”
Provenance
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b05b4585eb10128e8c0df3a5e3712e6fed72dd630407ef1c30995444b5163cf1
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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