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“We burn daylight.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a770d5f56c64a1f32d8fc6b2c1d6b7634601ecaa4ff72e056a22c1f5eeb609a9
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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