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“So that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 5afaf93b988dbdd21079e938f1f1db5c3c2d62f31eaaf82e43b317224a3fd204
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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