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“Forty stripes save one.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- bea1bccf4c07d631d1c597f801d9ea7f44ebf3e08eb117054af95d30dbbe9cf9
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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