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“A drunkard clasp his teeth and not undo 'em, To suffer wet damnation to run through 'em.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 76a39369d47b40f5709796c6405f73dec6ab697d37bdebd45f3510546847cc96
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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