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“Will. Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Spectator. No. 266.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 1231279b7fc866881b79a739575021aff65e5a0af928ab5bcea9dbc486fe3025
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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