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“When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- aae5fe786ba7fb082c3279da71202c588003ba94d08664c68f5bd96e9108d620
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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