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“To keep my hands from picking and stealing.”
— Unattributed
Provenance
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 98525a0a3eb75f15b025e655dcf7f08b219da267e45bc63cd540398ab65e7542
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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