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“The Lord shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost parts of the rivers of Egypt.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6ea3ea0bbe36be51265450b71f1e888fc5ab175a264f90f35ecd6b5bd86d4da5
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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