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“No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law.”
Provenance
- Source:
- M^cFingal. Canto iii. Line 489.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 1faac26acf67e236418e12499928fa9185b1fcdc34202168b97fa5df09555d3d
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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