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“It happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.”
Provenance
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 9cb2c87fcfdcf62f4ffa9da59e76310a5fa2d0fc420dee1fc2149a3b70141bf7
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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