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“He freshly and cheerfully asked him how a man should kill time.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Works. Book iv. Chap. lxii.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- cb2619c223f3c2dbac3e13fd39e4c7f1d472dd03906c113f222992cb4912d470
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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