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“I have fed like a farmer: I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.”
Provenance
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 417db5ec37550660693995d649dbd7b124d801392680e927ce92002202174f80
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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