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“So well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 47db9212cb3c7e72bc6d57d0d936d5948036e10b82242fe0150d46fa6adf7dd4
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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