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“One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title-page, another works away the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Bee. No. 1, Oct. 6, 1759.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b56196f4b3be3138f185f178cfe28adb82182f556a8c935a27571ca2a43a0797
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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