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“And what is writ is writ,-- Would it were worthier!”
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- Book
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- 0.85
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- 2026-07-04
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- c2b44bdcee0fb9f4cff197ab22af72c2125101ea4a336fdfbc21439f11858519
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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