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“A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- fa339e9df54e2ba6d1ded1b6a3a0d5cfdfbe6fb8079e3adaf90d06962b29ac07
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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