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“To waft a feather or to drown a fly.”
Provenance
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b30d3eaf40a5ac6490825a0498c21fcd1b7f401d8bba00a0f84102d6143f0162
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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