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“A thorn in the flesh.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 2ca6a439342b3382cd0075938322b6e76ce1fe8e0da416718c656ba3261ebb54
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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