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“It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 822baf05681d0bb722724bf22e6f9ed6aaff2093381bdf9b452eaa2d526f75cf
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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