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“For 't is a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost, We seek it, ere it come to light, In every cranny but the right.”
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- Source:
- The Retired Cat.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 1344aed7420409bb1c5f6b43a9697fa7537d2090bd7e593425d7ef2d57fa2860
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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