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“Who thought he 'd won The field as certain as a gun.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d94cfad9209684795f811355ba15e93243fa99d7fe55f63179e3e85923a01903
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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