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“Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Johnsoniana. Kearsley. 606.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e7276cf09a58ed315512d847f841cd693f2b1dfe27292bfce792f258a8dec2c8
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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