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“The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart.”
— Unattributed
Provenance
- Type:
- song
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 83661fb9d27fd9623c51c26cde5b4261950b3644b46628114d68d2a184b9fbcc
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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