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“"There, take," says Justice, "take ye each a shell; We thrive at Westminster on fools like you. 'T was a fat oyster! live in peace,--adieu."”
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- Source:
- Epître ii.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- bbf156c03770887ac6e193cadf2c7af3a83433c549c84fd670a643977b83e437
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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