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“And gentle Dulness ever loves a joke.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Dunciad. Book ii. Line 34.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ca9857b672af4d8d1f20c3df5e0c16b5c91beb5c8bec76873237628fec918656
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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