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“We haven't all had the good fortune to be ladies; we haven't all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Answering a toast, "To the Babies," at a banquet in honor of General U.S. Grant (November 14, 1879).
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 65d46f6459b937cec24dbbef606f0bf78b7b06fe1d9f9478d94c7991ee8392e6
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