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“His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Apology for Smectymnuus.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 67325395535c6c46c4f6bf5b7cdd28d5ef45bb901fa4d62840cc480e079ea456
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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