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“Some asked me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say; But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 1dc576c5fd442aade666a0b07e9fd87a4091bd1fbc569e66dc8e84f6fa56a888
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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