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“Peter was dull; he was at first Dull,--oh so dull, so very dull! Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed, Still with this dulness was he cursed! Dull,--beyond all conception, dull.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 20a648cb1b13220a9678b105f7f9724d45a845e3d3d89ac973fc3a0fb6a59022
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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