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“Busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a05a322e163b4d8d667712e63e0057db692d19d8d315c77c45329bf91726ae1f
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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