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“Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b9f132bcd2094d5c7c2d1b11d9187c1476b2c188f566327af976f1a4374ddde5
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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