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“Anarcharsis, on learning that the sides of a ship were four fingers thick, said that "the passengers were just that distance from death."”
Provenance
- Source:
- Anarcharsis. v.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- eb04d144ce88cba77da5a8446c823b7ed5f69c553a24487357693ca0d77dfd8c
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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