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“To man the earth seems altogether No more a mother, but a step-dame rather.”
Provenance
- Source:
- First Week, Third Day.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- eafe85397cb817b43d1a16e9578a5ad9ccfab07e6ec0a4e46d6915321518a2d2
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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