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“I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 529fc8a20a4b1941f4effd07b6b0783162211ed34c35b19d49b50e2c893fa162
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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