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“Fasten him as a nail in a sure place.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 47fc2414b78ec3d9839930391e880e5ffa6a215076e2458eb0380c19a1221004
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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