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“I begin to smell a rat.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e77837773515f2acb36b1b5d4d2471760416c67d7a443ea0d3fe2d34c83dc499
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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