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“The King of France went up the hill With twenty thousand men; The King of France came down the hill, And ne'er went up again.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d5e4f028645b88a05254e4ea758a42583e6a66d90d93c14c515aba91c5b05946
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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