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“I can tell where my own shoe pinches me; and you must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6c33ab1e87e4f5b864590099b58226e0c748c7b24f58adb21d9dfdeb9ad22764
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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