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“A wit 's a feather, and a chief a rod; An honest man 's the noblest work of God.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- cc238529ad35106374aa7eeea04825233cbe69f19541ea93f781cfb98d59f1e8
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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