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“Not unlike the bear which bringeth forth In the end of thirty dayes a shapeless birth; But after licking, it in shape she drawes, And by degrees she fashions out the pawes, The head, and neck, and finally doth bring To a perfect beast that first deformed thing.”
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- Source:
- First Week, First Day.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c68c898d42010f1e805c9a5bc81be9d80419b897af7aa5d9bd4398db1d3c98a9
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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