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“Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- fc34d0ea8fd0468ad098468512d7fb290661e2ddb5abceddf4d972e5a5687340
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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