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“"These Macedonians," said he, "are a rude and clownish people, that call a spade a spade."”
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 37027ed2b089a5d459e8addcf6f373288c5f9a600c08ffa0f646b0cd6ac0c30d
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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