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“Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that 's scarcely felt or seen.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e1ee500a6d4cc6c7f9bb7eefba456ef9b9e063dee004053f16f2cfa6b0ae3405
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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