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“Going as if he trod upon eggs.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f24506dfc34fadb9d8ff3686fc4e24f840d662cd2f235d0fe4df27331a3e1aec
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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