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“An honest man, close-button'd to the chin, Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Epistle to Joseph Hill.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 9c01879ac2fd76d945f65747c4132f04540b94c85fc7c52724e40b88cd09e915
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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