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“He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Locksley Hall. Line 49.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 5b5cd1b4af98d8a27e7144699aed33fa2953ab0c6881ca4228171e6f448ef243
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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