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“Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
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- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 63ad4a9ba4ef572f8576ae62d71cae1119f7c9a8fda84a8bb6b7db6f6375451a
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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