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“Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand than it becomes a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 463b76a88d0762b1440716d96ed46154c62b902d708411fc24bb7fad8d313ed3
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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