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“His conversation does not show the minute-hand, but he strikes the hour very correctly.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Johnsoniana. Kearsley. 604.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 2b37f4ffdff0941ab2488352b95bcd4c23144483fd442f4491fbd7a1357f95b4
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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