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“Oft has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Chameleon.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- bfdf777568f930a155652ed5f45b98b4557b160e2cbb6105abeb6984bced425a
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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