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“He is one of those wise philanthropists who in a time of famine would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.”
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- Source:
- Douglas Jerrold's Wit.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 11256ee299de286e11a9e9f6d18e1c188da452ac9b9cd12cb8df5e5226539e47
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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