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“Boston State-house is the hub of the solar system. You could n't pry that out of a Boston man if you had the tire of all creation straightened out for a crow-bar.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e986efe459c6d24282a3f65efd12908f399ed7e2f520a6a2155f9bbb77401709
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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