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“That old man eloquent.”
Provenance
- Source:
- To the Lady Margaret Ley.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c42319c453f8f0961c51908240d0c25f71652331922b105ab1ccce83aeb55da1
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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