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“Quoth Hudibras, "I smell a rat! Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate."”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e29d29be0f4f587fd0d7085bb593740574c25edc78ef4dd640f95519859b77f6
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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