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“Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Rivals. Act iv. Sc. 1.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3df062f92a8b83e3b6c4cf94c5a39158aef2dd4067c22a01b7f9246f8b1bc49c
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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