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“If the man who turnips cries Cry not when his father dies, 'T is a proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Johnsoniana. Piozzi, 30.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- cad06a6eba0276cc8373130bd4ec72c8f3ba8f396f304cf91f320a55506d329a
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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