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“Which I wish to remark,-- And my language is plain,-- That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar.”
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- quote
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- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 687b94c9bb5359b349c2577aafa778844e62a3f5a2c6b84c4c0497ce86ac4a08
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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