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“The whole [Scotch] nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Letter to Sir Horace Mann, 1778.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 4676cb4a6500ce6897c2050c88570c77b53b65601639c9802ee65add1bf83c03
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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