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“As water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e9ab23e99945a4a7f66ab2a85a632b97818b0b2b3c3778fae0cae70204dc0410
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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