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“Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Lost Leader. i.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 84bece4889b2d6205022ef02eac54ad80c2d615231d5b9484abeeb814d3c53ec
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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