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“The limbs will quiver and move after the soul is gone.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Johnsoniana. Northcote. 487.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 428d7a8abcfab99f74814d5f45bcc39e07ddec367c05bf14f19a2a25e885ba42
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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