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“To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.”
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- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 1b1d208926e1204a5287cb0a8f6036181d9791a13a98749f008dd1f9ea6eabba
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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