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“Then I began to think that it is very true which is commonly said, that the one half of the world knoweth not how the other half liveth.”
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- Source:
- Works. Book ii. Chap. xxxii.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 4526aad5498f34b1b66b5737a47c32a69360c24ebab39cbf707558fbaa5a85c0
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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