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“Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook?”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 1eb619ff2dbb25e4ee0d8d34c0a514d11992bd0274e3ce2c5f5308f6344e0030
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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