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- Source:
- Ancient and Modern Learning.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 5fc65fb97cd5b02ae14a4060fd57ba687c3858787fcd5f0512889ef3efb14059
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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