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“The pomps and vanity of this wicked world.”
— Unattributed
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- fc677fa4d893cb9405cd39c4a8d6bdde4d96f7687652eb54ad13a99668125570
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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