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“Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 53046befe49ea5e8d631e57696a2367777249d6c47fb585c4a1c457d964af498
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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