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“Fishes that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty.”
Provenance
- Source:
- To Althea from Prison, ii.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- fb151db7aeb0a3e516cfae28bca1305fb3539cb3b89a035a193b8e9b3055554e
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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