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“The king [Frederic] has sent me some of his dirty linen to wash; I will wash yours another time.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Reply to General Manstein.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 47aceb1b8e5956f79887e91e7fc81ee282e048ec3ee79972899bd6aedf10c071
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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