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“They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.”
— Unattributed
Provenance
- Type:
- song
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 922d5057681fc2c96ec6a44b1a9c592e5b9ae8bb97782562b954a511911582bc
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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