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“He was not merely a chip of the old block, but the old block itself.”
Provenance
- Source:
- On Pitt's First Speech, Feb. 26, 1781. From Wraxall's Memoirs, First Series, vol. i. p. 342.
- Type:
- Speech
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e01ce4dd33509cc021867c50ab660432954d7511dcd86b061cc3ecbead29f4bd
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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