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“Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Retaliation. Line 112.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7929190ff08bbaaf168d4638e3efd6d20e741411f864f563e9840d964824f8a0
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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