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“You may as well expect pears from an elm.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xl.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7fcbeea52e8faf7685ea7b1e2697a42728e3c4ee2af3dd076049ecf7c6433a98
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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