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“Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air?”
Provenance
- Source:
- The History of England. Book iv.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 5ae705ef52edc6b07412d951bfde457dfdf9e6dc15af1bfd2b3b6f263e3a1cc4
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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Jonathan Swift
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William Shakespeare
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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