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“Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- c12f2e80551f6521898cb3641763ca2841b3d912e3efcaa7fd381ebfd8e13a70
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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