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“If it had been a bear it would have bit you.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Polite Conversation. Dialogue i.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7a026a899f2324fa435bbcca724d0eb17715ba8830e36639fe58edc4535a1ab0
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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