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“And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by.”
Provenance
- Source:
- First Week, First Day.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 2c2ec9ebd82366270fd89406bf8865ad4dabdde4328a654ce6f266a00cc3286c
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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