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“The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.”
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- Source:
- Book ii. Chap. x. Of Books.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 99f30d878fd52abb53fbdbf59fcd03cbd158fba6d7937a4b11cbefe651c20ca9
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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