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“Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.”
Provenance
- Source:
- An Humorous Day's Mirth.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d36c248f8ec10a643eed7db10796ba46baabc834befe5bf1f9d5f75e6b43151c
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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