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“A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7af4d32606915ef12922c36fba083e8b01b986d5471a521904de186ffad339d4
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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