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“He was so good he would pour rose-water on a toad.”
Provenance
- Source:
- A Charitable Man.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 2c2b6f43005bf6ab59c9004014c8e199afaed0f3b103d1c7ac3886ed463c90be
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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