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“The best-humour'd man, with the worst-humour'd Muse.”
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- Source:
- Postscript.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 249c8dad19c29af8981f3541a7e576e53656e76f688b69f63091af49ddff58ed
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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