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“Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- bfa1028e2e4e2e1c878c508df4f6eb201b46b1379d7f27bd1be81a6943c6be83
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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