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“He [Kippis] might be a very clever man by nature for aught I know, but he laid so many books upon his head that his brains could not move.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Gregory's Life of Hall.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- aa1150a84ce0161203499050a8a7f37ce130775c1c5ba5c540d5a884a5835722
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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