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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7a44bfcedd70153bc4724b7b50e6956495763c0abc77fa42f3a0f0e19845945f
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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