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“Like the best wine, . . . that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.”
— Unattributed
Provenance
- Type:
- song
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e154e25990a128a4e7cf35e7a6fed3c27838fcd3baae01c136c25e88da529293
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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