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“Or shear swine, all cry and no wool.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 81e1f5b8d54902e93a199b113d20b34eb920d4a61f8b767f7b86a5cc9bba949e
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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